Coniferales

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 : 165

Coniferales gen. et sp. indet.

Pl. 2, Fig. 6

M a t e r i a l. A single specimen from GLAz (MGPTPU141015).

D e s c r i p t i o n. Apical fragment of a thick needle-leaf with acute apex.

R e m a r k s. The acute apex differs from those of Abies MILL. , Tsuga (ENDL.) CARRIÈRE , Nothotsuga HU ex C.N.PAGE and Pseudotsuga CARRIÈRE , and the width is larger than in Pinus L. needles. The longitudinal ridge on the adaxial side of the leaf could be compatible with Sequoia ENDL. or with some Pinaceae , e.g., Picea LINK or Taxaceae . More accurate analyses are needed, e.g., cuticle.