Pinus_driftwoodensis
Pinus driftwoodensis
Extinct species of conifer
Pinus driftwoodensis is an extinct species of conifer in the pine family[1] solely known from early Eocene[2] sediments exposed in south central British Columbia.[1] The species was described from an isolated fossil ovulate cone associated with a series of wood, needles and pollen cones in chert.[1] P. driftwoodensis was the eighth pine species to be described from a permineralized ovulate cone and the second from the Okanagan highlands (after Pinus arnoldii).[1]