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The count is genus-level: Miocene peak 151 genera, 200 fossil-record genera overall, and 37 native today. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: Cenozoic losses of tree diversity constrain climatic adaptation of Western and Central European forests · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:b59e96a064ba84df78d7fd0deda52b7af5808d2c822eff0891fa625086509cda

In the Miocene, tree genus richness reached an overall peak of 151 genera ... Of the 200 tree genera found in the fossil record ... only 37 have a native presence in the region today. Altogether, Western and Central Europe hosted 60 tree genera in the Pleistocene ...