Parent taxon: Sequoioideae according to M. R. Ahuja and D. B. Neale 2002
See also Christophel 1976, Hickey 1977, Liu et al. 1996, McIver and Basinger 1993 and Ozaki 1974
Sister taxa: Sequoia, Sequoiadendron
Subtaxa: Metasequoia disticha Metasequoia glyptostroboides Metasequoia occidentalis Metasequoia occidentalis
Type: Metasequoia glyptostroboides
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Japan (1 collection)
• Miocene to Oligocene of United States (1: Montana)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Japan (3)
• Miocene of China (2), Japan (17), the Russian Federation (3), United States (2: Montana)
• Oligocene to Eocene of United States (1: Oregon)
• Oligocene of the Russian Federation (3), United States (8: Montana, Oregon)
• Eocene of Canada (2: British Columbia, Nunavut), China (5), Japan (13), United States (31: Idaho, North Dakota, Washington, Wyoming)
• Clarkforkian of United States (36: North Dakota, Wyoming)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Canada (1: Nunavut)
• Paleocene of Canada (4: Alberta, Saskatchewan), China (1), Faroe Islands (1), United States (51: Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, Wyoming)
• Cretaceous of Canada (15: British Columbia), United States (19: North Dakota, South Dakota)
Total: 220 collections including 233 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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