Pinus sp.

Teodoridis, Vasilis, Kvaček, Zlatko, Sami, Marco, Utescher, Torsten & Martinetto, Edoardo, 2015, Palaeoenvironmental Analysis Of The Messinian Macrofossil Floras Of Tossignano And Monte Tondo (Vena Del Gesso Basin, Romagna Apennines, Northern Italy), Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae Series B 71 (3 - 4), pp. 249-292 : 252

Pinus sp. (cone)

Pl. 1, Fig. 1

A symmetric ovoid seed cone, 55 mm long and 25 mm wide, strongly abraded, which does not show details of the apophyses. In its general form it conforms with the late Miocene record of P. hampeana (UNGER) HEER based on a single seed cone from Vegora, Greece ( Mai and Velitzelos 1997). In Italy, better preserved material was assigned to P. hampeana from Pliocene sediments, e.g., in Tuscany (Meleto Clay: Mai 1994, Fischer and Butzmann 2000) and Piedmont ( Martinetto 1995).

M a t e r i a l. One seed cone (Tossignano MSF55) and fragment (Monte Tondo MSF1867).