Sequoia affinis
Extinct conifer possibly ancestral to coast and giant redwoods.
Sequoia affinis is an extinct conifer species in the cypress family Cupressaceae. Its fossils are found at the Florissant fossil beds in Colorado, where a trio of fossilized stumps, thought to be basal shoot clones of one parent tree, has been reconstructed. The species may be ancestral to both the modern coast redwood and the giant sequoia.
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