Angiospermae - Fagales - Fagaceae
Full reference: B. C. Dumortier. 1829. Analyse des Familles des Plantes, avec l’indication des principaux genres qui s’y rattachent.
Parent taxon: Fagales according to H. Xu et al. 2016
See also Engler 1892, Knowlton 1919, Mabberley 2000, MacGinitie 1941, Ozaki 1974, Shoshani et al. 1989, Taylor et al. 2008 and The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group 2016
Sister taxa: Betulaceae, Casuarinaceae, Juglandaceae, Myricaceae, Nothofagaceae, Nothofagidites, Ticodendraceae
Subtaxa: Amentogerdiopollenites Amplobalanus Antiquacupula Carpinites Castanea Castaneophyllum Castanopsis Castanoxylon Cupuliferoipollenites Dryobalanus Fagophyllum Fagopsis Fagoxylon Fagus Galla Lithocarpus Nephelites Parafagus Parvobalanus Pasania Pasianopsis Protofagacea Pseudofagus Quercinium Querciphyllum Quercophyllum Quercoxylon Quercus
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of China (3 collections), France (5), India (27), Iran (2), Italy (2), Japan (6), Laos (1), North Atlantic (51), Portugal (1), United States (16: Florida, Kansas, Michigan, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Washington), Vietnam (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of India (1), Italy (2)
• Pliocene of China (13), Germany (7), India (1), Japan (2), North Atlantic (6), Portugal (11), United States (5: California, Florida, Nevada)
• Turolian of Spain (1)
• Hemphillian of United States (3: California, Indiana, Tennessee)
• Miocene to Oligocene of United States (1: Montana)
• Miocene to Pliocene of France (1), Germany (1), India (1), Japan (5), North Atlantic (1), South Africa (1)
• Neogene of China (6), India (1)
• Miocene of Argentina (1), Azerbaijan (3), China (13), Croatia (1), Germany (64), India (1), Japan (18), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (4), Slovakia (1), Switzerland (2), Taiwan (1), Türkiye (2), United States (43: California, Georgia, Idaho, Maryland, Massachusetts, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, Oregon, Vermont, Virginia, Washington)
• Oligocene to Eocene of United States (1: Oregon)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (7), Germany (1), United States (4: Maryland, Montana)
• Oligocene of Argentina (3), Azerbaijan (1), China (1), Czechia (2), Germany (9), Japan (1), Puerto Rico (1), the Russian Federation (4), the United Kingdom (1), United States (12: Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Virginia), Vietnam (1)
• Eocene to Miocene of Argentina (1)
• Eocene to Oligocene of United States (4: Colorado)
• Eocene of Argentina (12), Canada (5: British Columbia), China (7), Germany (1), India (1), Japan (7), Myanmar (40), Romania (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (73: Alaska, California, Colorado, Georgia, Louisiana, Missouri, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming)
• Paleocene to Oligocene of Canada (1: Nunavut)
• Tertiary of Japan (3)
• Paleocene of Argentina (3), the United Kingdom (2), United States (82: Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, Wyoming)
• Cretaceous to Neogene of China (1)
• Cretaceous of Canada (3: British Columbia), Mexico (1), Portugal (1), United States (29: Georgia, Kansas, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Wyoming)
Total: 669 collections including 1211 occurrences