Angiospermae - Lamiales - Oleaceae
Full reference: H. D. MacGinitie. 1941. A Middle Eocene Flora from the Central Sierra Nevada. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 534:1-178
Belongs to Fraxinus according to H. D. MacGinitie 1941
Sister taxa: Fraxinus abbreviata, Fraxinus americana, Fraxinus brownellii, Fraxinus denticulata, Fraxinus eocenica, Fraxinus excelsior, Fraxinus heerii, Fraxinus herendeenensis, Fraxinus integrifolia, Fraxinus johnstrupi, Fraxinus libbeyi, Fraxinus mespilifolia, Fraxinus myricaefolia, Fraxinus nigra, Fraxinus oligocenica, Fraxinus oregonensis, Fraxinus palaeophila, Fraxinus praedicta, Fraxinus quadrangulata, Fraxinus richmondensis, Fraxinus ungeri, Fraxinus wilcoxiana, Fraxinus wrightii
Type specimen: U.C. Mus. Pal. Paleobot. Ser. cotypes nos. 2324, 2325. Its type locality is UCMP loc. P3318, Chalk Bluff, which is in an Eocene floodplain claystone in California.
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Eocene of United States (4: California, Washington collections)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
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