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Abies sp., Fir(s)

genus Abies Miller (1754)

• Modern species: Middle Triassic - Present (242.0 - 0.0 Ma)
• Habitat: Temperate - Subarctic

• Classification
• kingdom Plantae, phylum Pinophyta, class Pinopsida, order Pinales, family Pinaceae

• Distribution
• Miocene: Hokkaido, Niigata
• Miocene-Pliocene: Hokkaido, Nagano
• Pliocene: Miyagi, Gifu, Hyogo
• Pliocene-Pleistocene: Nagano, Kagawa
• Pleistocene: Hokkaido, Aomori, Fukushima, Niigata, Toyama, Ishikawa, Tochigi, Ibaraki, Tokyo, Chiba, Aichi, Mie, Hyogo, Hiroshima, Yamaguchi
• Holocene: Aichi
• Investigation in progress: Ehime

• Subtaxa
• A. firma, Japanese fir
• A. garoensis
• A. homolepis, Nikko fir
• A. mariesii, Maries' fir
• A. n-suzukii
• A. sachalinensis, Sakhalin fir
• A. veitchii, Veitch's fir