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Lauraceae gen. et sp. indet., Laurel(s)

family Lauraceae Jussieu (1789)

• Modern species: Early Cretaceous - Present (112.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• Classification
• kingdom Plantae, Angiosperms, order Laurales

• Distribution
• Eocene: Yamaguchi
• Oligocene: Nagano
• Miocene: Akita, Miyagi, Niigata, Nagano, Ishikawa, Tochigi, Ibaraki, Aichi, Gifu, Hyogo, Tottori, Yamaguchi, Kagawa
• Miocene-Pliocene: Tottori
• Pliocene-Pleistocene: Nagano
• Pleistocene: Tochigi, Aichi
• Investigation in progress: Mie, Oita

• Subtaxa
• Cinnamomum, genus
• Laurus, genus
• Lindera obtusiloba, Japanese spicebush
• Lindera praecox
• Lindera protopraecox
• Lindera umbellata
• Litseaphyllum, genus
• Machilus, genus
• Neolitsea aciculata
• Sassafras, genus