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Abies honshuensis
Abies honshuensis Tanai J. Fac. Sci. Hokkaido Univ., Ser. 4, Geol., 11(2): 247. 20 Mar 1961
- Name
- Abies honshuensis
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Abies
- Authors (Pub.)
- Tanai T.
- Publication
- Neogene floral change in Japan [1961/3]
- Journal
- Journal of the Faculty of Science of the Hokkaido University
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
- 2
- Page number
- 247
- Year
- 1961
- Parent Taxon
- [Genus] Abies
- Fossil Status
- cones (scales & seeds)
- Stratigraphy
- Miocene
- Location
- Aburato coal mine, Kamo-machi, Tsuruoka City, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan
- Paleoregion
- Eurasia (Japanese Archipelago)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Geological Survey of Japan, Agency of Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan
- Repository Number
- GSJ-4210
- Diagnosis
- Cone-scale semicircular in general outline, 1.2 cm high and 1.4cm wide; stalk 4.5mm long and 1.2 to 1.5mm wide; base subcordate, sometimes with small appendage-like fiange on the lower side; up.per margiii broadly rounded, with small and irregular teeth; braet unknown. Samara incomplete, probably wedge-shaped in outline, 1,2 cm long; seed oblongly elliptical in shape, 7.5mpa long and 2mm wide; rounded pointed at apex and base; wing flanking the seed and terminated on the upper half of the seed.
