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Castanea (chestnut)
Taxonomy
Castanea was named by Miller (1754). It is extant.
It was assigned to Betulaceae by Knowlton (1926); and to Fagaceae by Knowlton (1899), Berry (1914), Knowlton (1919), Brown (1959), Liu et al. (1996), Mabberley (2000).
It was assigned to Betulaceae by Knowlton (1926); and to Fagaceae by Knowlton (1899), Berry (1914), Knowlton (1919), Brown (1959), Liu et al. (1996), Mabberley (2000).
Species
Species lacking formal opinion data
Entered
by J. Cassara (authorized by H. Sims) on 2003-12-02; modified by J. Alroy on 2013-04-30
Synonymy list
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. Castanea Miller 1754 [chestnut]
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†Castanea atavia Unger 1850
†Castanea claibornensis Berry 1914
†Castanea dolicophylla Cockerell 1908
†Castanea fujiyamae Tanai 1970
†Castanea intermedia Lesquereux 1878
†Castanea protoantiqua Suzuki 1976
†Castanea pulchella Knowlton 1899
Castanea pumila Linnaeus 1753
Castanea sativa Miller 1786
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Paleocene to the top of the Holocene or 66.00000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 56.0 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 56.0 Ma
Collections (82 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Paleocene | USA (Montana) | Castanea intermedia (53838) | |
| Paleocene | USA (Wyoming) | Castanea intermedia (40083 43302 57937 57945 58004) | |
| Paleocene | USA (Colorado) | Castanea intermedia (40059 52826 52953 52957 53076 53081) | |
| Paleocene - Oligocene | Canada (Nunavut) | Castanea sp. (102066) | |
| Tertiary | Japan (Aichi) | Castanea miocrenata (22819) | |
| Early/Lower Eocene | USA (Colorado) | Castanea intermedia (53070) | |
| Ypresian | Canada (British Columbia) | Castanea sp. (227994) | |
| Eocene | USA (Alaska) | Castanea cataneaefolia (112312) | |
| Eocene | China (Guangxi) | Castanea miomollissima (223907) | |
| Eocene | China (Jilin) | Castanea miomollissima (223891) | |
| Middle Eocene | China (Jilin) | Castanea fujiyamae (179213) | |
| Middle Eocene | USA (Oregon) | Castanea sp. (21220) | |
| Middle Eocene | USA (Wyoming) | Castanea pulchella (24087 24145 24157) | |
| Bartonian | USA (Georgia) | Castanea claibornensis (212696) | |
| Late/Upper Eocene - Early/Lower Oligocene | USA (Colorado) | Castanea dolichophylla (39837 39839 39849) | |
| Chadronian | USA (Colorado) | Castanea dolichophylla (24209) | |
| Early/Lower Oligocene | Japan (Fukuoka) | Castanea protoantiqua (224520) | |
| Oligocene | USA (Montana) | Castanea spokanensis (23793) | |
| Oligocene - Miocene | USA (Maryland) | Castanea sp. (231836) | |
| Late/Upper Oligocene - Late/Upper Eocene | USA (Oregon) | Castanea basidentata (35921) | |
| Late/Upper Oligocene | Czechia | Castanea atavia (224522) | |
| Late/Upper Oligocene - Early/Lower Miocene | USA (Montana) | Castanea spolanensis (23330) | |
| Miocene - Oligocene | USA (Montana) | Castanea dolichophylla, Castanea miomollissima (23975) | |
| Early/Lower Miocene - Middle Miocene | China (Jilin) | Castanea ungeri (223816) | |
| Early/Lower Miocene - Late/Upper Miocene | USA (Washington) | Castanea orientalis (103753) | |
| Miocene | Japan (Aichi) | Castanea sp. (22820) | |
| Miocene | China (Hebei) | Castanea sativa (223818) | |
| Miocene | USA (Washington) | Castanea castaneaefolia (224391) | |
| Miocene | USA (Massachusetts) | Castanea sp. (231784 231798 231824 231826) | |
| Miocene | USA (Montana) | Castanea miomollissima (23973) | |
| Miocene - Pliocene | Japan (Nagano) | Castanea miocrenata (22787 22788) | |
| Neogene | China (Jilin) | Castanea miomollissima (223933) | |
| Burdigalian | China (Shandong) | Castanea miomollissima (223803) | |
| Langhian | USA (Virginia) | Castanea sp. (79793) | |
| Langhian - Serravallian | Poland (Silesia) | Castanea mollissima (28442) Castanea sp. (28443) | |
| Middle Miocene | China (Anhui) | Castanea miomollissima (223948) | |
| Middle Miocene | USA (California) | Castanea spokanensis (35412) | |
| Middle Miocene - Serravallian | Germany (Brandenburg) | Castanea atavia (27380) | |
| Langhian - Messinian | Japan (Hirakata) | Castanea miocrenata (22744) | |
| Serravallian | USA (Virginia) | Castanea sp. (126605 187324) | |
| Serravallian | Germany (Brandenburg) | Castanea atavia (23044 23045 27512 27514) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | China (Yunnan) | Castanea miomollissima (222698) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | Japan (Gunma) | Castanea miocrenata (22755) | |
| Early/Lower Pliocene | Japan (Aichi) | Castanea sp. (168063) | |
| Zanclean | Germany (North Rhine) | Castanea sativa (28134) | |
| Pliocene | China (Zhejiang) | Castanea ungeri (223882) | |
| Pliocene | Portugal | Castanea sp. (232112 232121 232124 232125 232144 232145 232146 232147) | |
| Late/Upper Pliocene | China (Yunnan) | Castanea miomollissima (224402) | |
| Piacenzian | USA (Florida) | Castanea sp. (22712) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | Japan (Kyoto City) | Castanea sp. (168082) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | USA (North Carolina) | Castanea sp. (61887) | |
| Calabrian | USA (Virginia) | Castanea sp. (104698) | |
| Holocene | Japan (Kyoto city) | Castanea sp. (168083) |