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Picea miocenica
Picea miocenica Tanai J. Fac. Sci. Hokkaido Univ., Ser. 4, Geol., 11(2): 253. 20 Mar 1961
- Name
- Picea miocenica
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Picea
- 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
- 253
- Year
- 1961
- Parent Taxon
- [Genus] Picea
- Fossil Status
- cones (scales & seeds)
- Stratigraphy
- Miocene
- Location
- Hiyoshi, Mizunami City, Gifu 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-4211
- Diagnosis
- Cone-scale obcordate in general outline, broadly cordate at base, upper margin of scale rounded, finely serrulate, slightly cordate at apex, 2.0 cm height and 1.9 cm wide; bract small, short, 3 mm long and 2 mm wide, with pointed tip. Samaras medium in size, obovate in general out}ine; seed obovate-trigonal in shape, pointed at base, rOunded at apex, 5 to 5,5 mm long and 3,O to 3.5 mm wide at widest part; wing ovate in shape, rounded at apex, 10 to 11 mm long and 6.5mm wide at the middle of wing, fianking the seeds and terminated in the upper halt o£ the seeds.
