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Fagus sp., Beech(es)

genus Fagus Linnaeus (1753)

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

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

• Distribution
• Paleogene-Neogene: Nagano
• Paleocene: Hiroshima
• Oligocene: Nagano, Kagawa
• Miocene: Miyagi, Yamagata, Fukushima, Niigata, Nagano, Ishikawa, Gunma, Saitama, Tokyo, Shizuoka, Aichi, Gifu, Mie, Kyoto, Hyogo, Okayama, Tottori, Kagawa, Ehime, Saga
• Miocene-Pliocene: Hokkaido, Tottori, Oita
• Pliocene: Hokkaido, Miyagi, Niigata, Chiba, Aichi, Gifu, Mie, Hyogo, Okayama
• Pliocene-Pleistocene: Niigata, Nagano, Saitama, Shimane, Kagawa
• Pleistocene: Hokkaido, Aomori, Yamagata, Fukushima, Niigata, Nagano, Yamanashi, Toyama, Gunma, Tochigi, Saitama, Tokyo, Chiba, Aichi, Mie, Kyoto, Okayama, Hiroshima, Shimane
• Holocene: Miyagi
• Investigation in progress: Aomori, Yamanashi, Fukui, Shizuoka, Mie

• Subtaxa
• F. antipofi
• F. crenata, Japanese beech
• F. hayatae, Taiwan beech
• F. japonica, Japanese blue beech
• F. microcarpa
• F. nathorsti
• F. palaeocrenata
• F. stuxbergii