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Liquidambar sp., Sweetgum(s)

genus Liquidambar Linnaeus (1753)

• Modern species: Late Cretaceous - Present (99.7 - 0.0 Ma)

• Classification
• kingdom Plantae, Angiosperms, order Saxifragales, family Altingiaceae

• Distribution
• Paleogene-Neogene: Nagasaki
• Eocene: Ehime
• Miocene: Hokkaido, Akita, Miyagi, Yamagata, Niigata, Toyama, Ishikawa, Fukui, Ibaraki, Saitama, Chiba, Aichi, Gifu, Hyogo, Hiroshima, Tottori
• Miocene-Pliocene: Fukushima
• Pliocene: Aichi, Gifu, Mie, Hyogo
• Pliocene-Pleistocene: Nagano, Shimane
• Pleistocene: Mie, Osaka
• Investigation in progress: Hokkaido, Mie

• Subtaxa
• L. formosana, Formosan gum
• L. miosinica
• L. yabei

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