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Taxodium dubium is an extinct species of baldcypress known only from fossils, dating from the Late Paleocene to the Pliocene in North America, Europe and Asia. It is not a living plant and cannot be grown.
Taxodium dubium is an extinct species of baldcypress in the genus Taxodium in the family Cupressaceae which lived from the Late Paleocene to the Pliocene in North America, Europe and Asia. The species was first described in 1823 by Kaspar Maria von Sternberg.
The oldest North American occurrences date to the Paleocene of St. Lawrence Island off the west coast of Alaska and to the Denali National Park and Preserve in central Alaska. By the early Eocene the species had spread south along British Columbia to North and Central Washington state. Ypresian age Okanagan highlands fossils have been found in the British Columbia interior at Quilchena and in Princetons Allenby Formation along with in the Klondike Mountain Formation around Republic and Northern Ferry County, Washington. Coeval lowland coastal swamp and flood plain fossils are found in the Fraser River valley of British Columbia, the Chuckanut Formation of northern Washington, and the Puget Group in the Puget Sound lowlands. The species continued to expand south and by the Middle Eocene was present from the John Day Formation of Oregon south to the Weaverville, California, and in the Miocene had spread east to the Elko Formation, Nevada and the Clarkia fossil beds in Idaho. T.
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