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Metasequoia sp.

genus Metasequoia Miki (1941)

• Modern species: Late Cretaceous - Present (99.7 - 0.0 Ma)

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

• Distribution
• Paleocene: Iwate
• Eocene: Hokkaido, Yamaguchi
• Oligocene: Nagano, Kagawa
• Miocene: Hokkaido, Akita, Miyagi, Yamagata, Fukushima, Niigata, Nagano, Ishikawa, Fukui, Gunma, Ibaraki, Saitama, Tokyo, Aichi, Gifu, Kyoto, Hyogo, Hiroshima, Tottori, Kagawa
• Miocene-Pliocene: Mie, Tottori
• Pliocene: Miyagi, Niigata, Tokyo, Shizuoka, Gifu, Mie, Hyogo, Ehime
• Pliocene-Pleistocene: Nagano, Saitama, Kanagawa, Mie, Shimane, Kagawa
• Pleistocene: Niigata, Saitama, Tokyo, Shiga, Osaka, Tokushima

• Subtaxa
• M. disticha
• M. occidentalis