Metasequoia heerii

Metasequoia heerii
Temporal range:
Metasequoia heerii foliage; early Oligocene, John Day Basin, Painted Hills, Oregon
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Gymnospermae
Division: Pinophyta
Class: Pinopsida
Order: Cupressales
Family: Cupressaceae
Genus: Metasequoia
Species:
†M. heerii
Binomial name
†Metasequoia heerii
(Hu) Cheng, 1948

Metasequoia heerii is an extinct redwood species of the family Cupressaceae that is found as fossils throughout the Northern Hemisphere. It is one of several proposed extinct species of Metasequoia that were previously referred to Sequoia.

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