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Carpinus sp., Hornbeam(s)

genus Carpinus Linnaeus (1753)

• Modern species: early Eocene - Present (55.8 - 0.0 Ma)

• Classification
• kingdom Plantae, Angiosperms, order Fagales, family Betulaceae

• Distribution
• Paleocene: Hiroshima
• Eocene: Hokkaido
• Oligocene: Nagano
• Miocene: Akita, Miyagi, Yamagata, Niigata, Nagano, Ibaraki, Saitama, Aichi, Gifu, Tottori, Ehime
• Miocene-Pliocene: Tottori, Oita
• Pliocene: Miyagi, Gifu, Mie
• Pliocene-Pleistocene: Mie, Kagawa
• Pleistocene: Hokkaido, Aomori, Fukushima, Nagano, Gunma, Tochigi, Tokyo, Chiba, Mie, Hiroshima
• Holocene: Shizuoka
• Investigation in progress: Mie, Oita

• Subtaxa
• C. cordata, Sawa hornbeam
• C. heigunensis
• C. japonica, Japanese hornbeam
• C. laxiflora
• C. miocenica
• C. mioturczaninovii
• C. subcordata
• C. tschonoskii, Asian hornbeam