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Corylus sp., Hazel(s)

genus Corylus Linnaeus (1753)

• Modern species: Paleocene - Present (66.0 - 0.0 Ma)

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

• Distribution
• Eocene: Hokkaido
• Pliocene-Pleistocene: Nagano, Kagawa
• Pleistocene: Iwate, Niigata, Yamanashi, Gunma, Tochigi, Tokyo, Aichi, Hiroshima, Yamaguchi
• Investigation in progress: yamanashi

• Subtaxa
• C. heterophylla
• C. sieboldiana, Asian beaked hazel