Sequoia ENDL., 1847

Martinetto, Edoardo, Bertini, Adele, Mantzouka, Dimitra, Natalicchio, Marcello, Niccolini, Gabriele & Kovar-Eder, Johanna, 2022, Remains Of A Subtropical Humid Forest In A Messinian Evaporitebearing Succession At Govone, Northwestern Italy - Preliminary Results, Fossil Imprint 78 (1), pp. 157-188 : 166

Genus Sequoia ENDL., 1847

Sequoia abietina (BRONGN.) ERW.KNOBLOCH, 1964 Pl. 1, Fig. 2

M a t e r i a l. A leafy shoot from GLAz, a fragment of which is preserved in MGPT-PU (MGPT-PU141002). Another very fragmentary shoot from GLA20 (MGPTPU141090).

R e m a r k s. The best specimen with typical characters was photographed in the field, and soon after was damaged by water from the Tanaro river. It differs from Taxodium by the curved instead of straight outline of the leafy shoot, and leaves closely adhering to the axis or just slightly protruding. The occurrence of Quasisequoia couttsiae (HEER) L.KUNZMANN is unlikely because it has never been reported from the Italian Neogene, otherwise it would be difficult to assign fragmentary leafy shoots to either species.