List of fossil beech species


Numerous species of beech, in the genus Fagus, have been named globally from the fossil record spanning from the Cretaceous to the Pleistocene.

Species

  • Fagus aburatoensis
  • Fagus alnitifolia
  • Fagus altaensis
  • Fagus ambigua
  • Fagus angusta
  • Fagus antipofii
  • Fagus aperta
  • Fagus arduinorum
  • Fagus aspera
  • Fagus aspera
  • Fagus atlantica
  • Fagus attenuata
  • Fagus aurelianii
  • Fagus australis
  • Fagus betulifolia
  • Fagus bonnevillensis
  • Fagus castaneifolia
  • Fagus celastrifolia
  • Fagus ceretana
  • Fagus chamaephegos
  • Fagus chankaica
  • Fagus chiericii
  • Fagus chinensis
  • Fagus coalita
  • Fagus cordifolia
  • Fagus cretacea
  • Fagus decurrens
  • Fagus dentata
  • Fagus deucalionis
  • Fagus dubia
  • Fagus dubia
  • Fagus echinata
  • Fagus eocenica
  • Fagus etheridgei
  • Fagus ettingshausenii
  • Fagus europaea
  • Fagus evenensis
  • Fagus faujasii
  • Fagus feroniae
  • Fagus florinii
  • Fagus forumlivii
  • Fagus friedrichii
  • Fagus gortanii
  • Fagus grandifoliiformis
  • Fagus gussonii
  • Fagus haidingeri
  • Fagus herthae
  • Fagus hitchcockii
  • Fagus hondoensis
  • Fagus hookeri
  • Fagus horrida
  • Fagus humata
  • Fagus idahoensis
  • Fagus inaequalis
  • Fagus incerta
  • Fagus integrifolia
  • Fagus intermedia
  • Fagus irvajamensis
  • Fagus japoniciformis
  • Fagus japonicoides
  • Fagus jobanensis
  • Fagus jonesii
  • Fagus juliae
  • Fagus kitamiensis
  • Fagus koraica
  • Fagus kraeuselii
  • Fagus kuprianoviae
  • Fagus lancifolia
  • Fagus langevinii
  • Fagus laptoneura
  • Fagus latissima
  • Fagus leptoneuron
  • Fagus macrophylla
  • Fagus maorica
  • Fagus marsillii
  • Fagus menzelii
  • Fagus microcarpa
  • Fagus miocenica
  • Fagus napanensis
  • Fagus nelsonica
  • Fagus oblonga
  • Fagus oblonga
  • Fagus obscura
  • Fagus olejnikovii
  • Fagus orbiculatum
  • Fagus orientaliformis
  • Fagus orientalis var fossilis
  • Fagus orientalis var palibinii
  • Fagus pacifica
  • Fagus palaeococcus
  • Fagus palaeocrenata
  • Fagus palaeograndifolia
  • Fagus palaeojaponica
  • Fagus pittmanii
  • Fagus pliocaenica
  • Fagus pliocenica
  • Fagus polycladus
  • Fagus praelucida
  • Fagus praeninnisiana
  • Fagus praeulmifolia
  • Fagus prisca
  • Fagus pristina
  • Fagus producta
  • Fagus protojaponica
  • Fagus protolongipetiolata
  • Fagus protonucifera
  • Fagus pseudoferruginea
  • Fagus pygmaea
  • Fagus pyrrhae
  • Fagus salnikovii
  • Fagus sanctieugeniensis
  • Fagus saxonica
  • Fagus schofieldii
  • Fagus septembris
  • Fagus shagiana
  • Fagus stuxbergii
  • Fagus subferruginea
  • Fagus succinea
  • Fagus sylvatica var diluviana
  • Fagus sylvatica var pliocenica
  • Fagus tenella
  • Fagus uemurae
  • Fagus uotanii
  • Fagus vivianii
  • †''Fagus washoensis''

Species formerly in the genus

Fossil species formerly placed in the genus Fagus include:
  • Alnus paucinervis
  • Castanea abnormalis
  • Fagopsis longifolia
  • Fagopsis undulata
  • Fagoxylon grandiporosum
  • Fagus-pollenites parvifossilis
  • Juglans ginannii
  • Nothofagaphyllites novae-zealandiae
  • Nothofagus benthamii
  • Nothofagus dicksonii
  • Nothofagus lendenfeldii
  • Nothofagus luehmannii
  • Nothofagus magelhaenica
  • Nothofagus maidenii
  • Nothofagus muelleri
  • Nothofagus ninnisiana
  • Nothofagus risdoniana
  • Nothofagus ulmifolia
  • Nothofagus wilkinsonii
  • †''Trigonobalanus minima''