Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Pinales 

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Divisio: Tracheophyta
Divisio: Pinophyta
Classis: Pinopsida
Ordo: Pinales

Familia: Cupressaceae
Subfamilia: Sequoioideae
Genus: Metasequoia
Species: †M. foxii

Name

Metasequoia foxii Stockey Rothwell, & Falder, 2001

Type locality

  • Late Tiffanian (Ti4), Paleocene; Paskapoo Formation; Munce's Hill, road cut northeast of Canyon Ski Mine Quarry; and Gao Mine, road cut on Highway 593, east of Red Deer, central Alberta, Canada.

Type material

  • Holotype: University of Alberta Paleobotanical Collection, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada UAPC-ALTA S28,476

References

  • Stockey, R. A., Rothwell, G. W. & Falder, A. B. (2001). Diversity among Taxodioid Conifers: Metasequoia foxii sp. nov. from the Paleocene of Central Alberta, Canada. International Journal of Plant Sciences 162 (1): 221–234.
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