Cupressaceae GRAY

Teodoridis, Vasilis, Kvaček, Zlatko, Agostini, Silvano, Martinetto, Edoardo, Rossi, Maria Adelaide & Cavallo, Oreste, 2015, Feather Palm Foliage From The Messinian Of Italy (Capo Di Fiume, Palena And Pollenzo Near Alba) Within The Framework Of Northern Mediterranean Late Miocene Flora, Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae Series B 71 (3 - 4), pp. 301-314 : 305

Cupressaceae GRAY

Tetraclinis brachyodon (BRONGNIART) MAI et WALTHER was recovered as an almost complete foliage shoot with flattened leafy segments (Pl. 3, Fig. 1). It is a xeromorphic species ancestral to the living Mediterranean Tetraclinis articulata (Vahl) Masters, which is a relict conifer that has survived since the Eocene (Kvaček et al. 2000). It was rarely recorded in late Miocene floras ( Givulescu 1975).

Cupressus rhenana (KILPPER) MAI et E. VELITZELOS , (Pl. 3, Fig. 2) was recovered as foliage shoots with decussate, isomorphic scale-like leaves and apically attached pollen cones. This conifer is typically represented in the Miocene flora of Kymi and Vegora ( Kvaček et al. 2002) in addition to a few other occurrences in Western Europe ( Kilpper 1968, as Cupressoconus rhenanus KILPPER ).

Chamaecyparis sp. is represented by foliage shoots with decussate, scale-like, imbricate, adpressed and persistent leaves (Pl. 3, Fig. 6).