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Cunninghamia

Coniferales - Cupressaceae

Taxonomy
Cunninghamia was named by Brown. It is extant. It is the type genus of Cunninghamioideae. It was considered monophyletic by Gadek et al. (2000) and Ahuja and Neale (2002).

It was assigned to Taxodiaceae by Ozaki (1974) and Liu et al. (1996); and to Cunninghamioideae by Gadek et al. (2000) and Ahuja and Neale (2002).

Species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1974Cunninghamia Ozaki
1996Cunninghamia Liu et al.
2000Cunninghamia Gadek et al. pp. 1048, 1056
2002Cunninghamia Ahuja and Neale p. 93 figs. Table 1

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomPlantae
phylumSpermatophyta
phylumPinophyta
orderConiferales
RankNameAuthor
familyCupressaceae
subfamilyCunninghamioideae
genusCunninghamiaBrown

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. Cunninghamia Brown
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Cunninghamia konishii Hooker 1827 [Formosan China fir]
Cunninghamia lanceolata Hooker 1827 [Chinese fir]
Cunninghamia protokonishii Tanai and Onoe 1961
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
No ecological data are available

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Late/Upper Campanian to the top of the Early/Lower Pleistocene or 83.50000 to 0.78100 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 72.1 Ma

Collections (32 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Campanian83.6 - 72.1Canada (British Columbia) C. hornbyensis (107504)
Early/Lower Campanian83.5 - 70.6Russian Federation (Tenkinskii) C. sp. (105375)
Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian83.5 - 66.0Canada (Alberta) C. sp. (34894)
Ypresian56.0 - 47.8Canada (British Columbia) C. sp. (227994)
Eocene56.0 - 33.9Canada (British Columbia) C. sp. (179231)
Early/Lower Oligocene33.9 - 28.4USA (Oregon) C. chaneyi (35220)
Rupelian33.9 - 28.1USA (Idaho) C. marquettii (27569)
Late/Upper Oligocene - Late/Upper Eocene28.4 - 33.9USA (Oregon) C. chaneyi (35921)
Chattian28.1 - 23.03Germany (Sachsen) C. heerii (24179 24534)
Early/Lower Miocene - Middle Miocene23.03 - 11.608China (Jilin) C. protokonishii (223816)
Miocene - Middle Miocene23.03 - 11.608Germany (Brandenburg) C. miocenica (23683)
Miocene23.03 - 5.333China (Zhejiang) C. protokonishii (224041)
Miocene23.03 - 5.333Japan (Gifu) C. protokonishii (222791)
Burdigalian20.44 - 15.97Germany (Bayern) C. europaea (28284)
Langhian15.97 - 13.82Germany (Saxen) C. miocenica (23676)
Langhian - Serravallian15.97 - 11.62Poland (Silesia) C. europaea (28442) C. sp. (28443)
Serravallian13.82 - 11.62Germany (Saxen) C. miocenica (22897)
Serravallian13.82 - 11.62Germany (Sachsen) C. miocenica (27381)
Serravallian13.82 - 11.62Germany (Brandenburg) C. miocenica (22899 23355 23611 23618 27013 27016 27063)
Late/Upper Miocene - Early/Lower Pliocene11.608 - 3.6Japan (Kouwa-cho) C. sp. (22827)
Messinian - Zanclean7.246 - 3.6Germany (Sachsen) C. sp. (27277)
Zanclean - Piacenzian5.333 - 2.588Germany (Thuringia) C. minisperma, C. miocenica (22771)
Early/Lower Pleistocene2.588 - 0.781Japan (Kyoto City) C. sp. (168082)
Early/Lower Pleistocene2.588 - 0.781Japan (Tokyo) C. lanceolata (224546)