Metasequoia heeri

Metasequoia heeri
Temporal range: Oligocene
Reconstruction of Metasequoia heeri from the Oligocene (32 ma) of Oregon.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Pinophyta
Class: Pinopsida
Order: Pinales
Family: Cupressaceae
Subfamily: Sequoioideae
Genus: Metasequoia
Species: M. heeri
Binomial name
Metasequoia heeri

Metasequoia heeri is an extinct species of dawn redwood with short leaflets from the early Oligocene (32 Ma) Bridge Creek flora of the Big Basin Member of the John Day Formation of central Oregon[1]

References

  1. Retallack G.J. (1996). "Reconstructions of Eocene and Oligocene plants and animals of central Oregon". Oregon Geology. 58(3): 51–59.


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