Pinopsida - Pinales - Pinaceae
The fragments of stem are obviously from the terminal portions of branches of come coniferous trees, and from the character of the leaf scars, they are to be referred to the genus Picea. While these branches are not connected with the cones on any way, nor do they even occur in the same blocks of matrix, nevertheless they are from the same beds, and in the absence of any other representative of the genus, it is probably justifiable to conclude that they are of the same species and will be so considered
Full reference: D.P. Penhallow. 1907. A report on fossil plants from the International Boundary Survey for 1903–1905, collected by Dr. R A Daly. Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada 1(4):287-351
Belongs to Picea according to F. H. Knowlton 1919
Sister taxa: Picea alba, Picea albertensis, Picea cliffwoodensis, Picea harrimani, Picea mariana, Picea quilchensis, Picea sitchensis, Picea smithiana, Picea tranquillensis
Type specimen: 2&1a/250, a seed repro (Cone & associated but unattached foliage). Its type locality is Kettle River , which is in an Eocene terrestrial shale in the Kettle River Formation of Canada.
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution: found only at Kettle River
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