Pinaceae LINDLEY

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 : 304

Pinaceae LINDLEY

Pinus LINNAEUS subgen. Pinus LINNAEUS , is represented by the remains of an incomplete seed cone identified as P. cf. hampeana (UNGER) HEER , ca. 50 mm long and 15 mm wide (Pl. 3, Fig. 3) with its external mould. The material is not well preserved, quite abraded and without details of the apophyses. It is similar to pine cones of this fossil species widely distributed in the Miocene (see Mai 1986), and also present in the upper Miocene of Greece (Vegora) and in the Pliocene of Italy. The associated needles in fascicles of two (Pl. 3, Fig. 4) are best assigned to a separate fossil-species, Pinus hepios (UNGER) HEER , even if possibly produced by the same plant. The foliage of another co-occurring pine species, assigned to Pinus rigios (UNGER) ETTINGSHAUSEN (Pl. 3, Fig. 5), differs in its much longer needles found in fascicles of three. This fossil species is also widely distributed in the European Miocene, mainly in the lignite facies.