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Tsuga miocenica
Tsuga miocenica Tanai J. Fac. Sci. Hokkaido Univ., Ser. 4, Geol., 11(2): 259. 20 Mar 1961
- Name
- Tsuga miocenica
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Tsuga
- 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
- 259
- Year
- 1961
- Parent Taxon
- [Genus] Tsuga
- Fossil Status
- cones (scales & seeds)
- Stratigraphy
- Miocene
- Location
- Yoshioka, Fukushima-cho, Matsumae-gun, Hokkaido, Japan
- Paleoregion
- Eurasia (Japanese Archipelago)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- National Museum of Nature and Science, Palaeobotany Collection, Tokyo, Japan
- Repository Number
- UHR-15077
- Diagnosis
- Cone-seales broadly ovate in general outline, rounded and slightly eordate at base, rounded and then abruptly pointed at apex, 14 to 16mm long and 10 to 11mm wide; stalk about 2mm long; bract linear, with acute apex, 6 mm long and 2 mm wide. Fruits small, obovate in outline, 9 mm long and 6 mm wide on the middle part of wing rounded at apex, acute at base; wing extended under seed, widest at or near middle; seed very small, oval in shape, 1.2 mm long and 0,8 mm wide,
