Palaeoenvironmental Analysis Of The Messinian Macrofossil Floras Of Tossignano And Monte Tondo (Vena Del Gesso Basin, Romagna Apennines, Northern Italy) Author Teodoridis, Vasilis Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Education, Department of Biology and Environmental Studies, Magdalény Rettigové 4, 116 39 Prague 1, the Czech Republic; e-mail: vasilis. teodoridis @ pedf. cuni. cz Author Kvaček, Zlatko Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Science, Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Albertov 6, 128 43, Prague 2, the Czech Republic; e-mail: kvacek @ natur. cuni. cz Author Sami, Marco Museo Civico di Scienze Naturali, Via Medaglie d’Oro 51, 480 18 Faenza (RA); Italy; e-mail: marco. sami @ cheapnet. it Author Utescher, Torsten Senckenberg Research Institute, Frankfurt am Main; Steinmann Institute, University of Bonn, Nussallee 8, 531 15 Bonn, Germany; e-mail: utescher @ geo. uni-bonn. de Author Martinetto, Edoardo Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi di Torino. Via Valperga Caluso 35, I- 10123 Torino, Italy; e-mail: edoardo. martinetto @ unito. it text Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae Series B 2015 2015-12-31 71 3 - 4 249 292 https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/24628ce2-d0a9-3b24-8b6c-c42c9e0f0bfd/ journal article 10.14446/AMNP.2015.249 2533-4069 13183696 Cupressus rhenana ( KILPPER ) MAI et VELITZELOS Pl. 1, Fig. 17; Pl. 2, Fig. 1 Leafy shoot regularly alternately branched, up to 50 mm long, covered with ovate-rhomboidal, acuminate, homomorphic decussate scale-like leaves not exceeded 1 mm in length. Orbiculate seed cone is 7 mm in diameter and composed of 8 decussate cone scales. Similar foliage and seed cone have been found at the late Miocene site Vegora, Greece ( Kvaček et al. 2002 ). Furthermore, even if the occurrence of Cupressus cf. sempervirens LINNAEUS indicated by Kovar-Eder et al. (2006) from the late Messinian site of Scipione Ponte (northern Italy ) is referred to cones, these are associated with so far undescribed leafy shoots which are identical to those of Monte Tondo. We also revise here the material from Scipione Ponte (Cenofita Collection, University of Turin, Nr. CCN1470) as Cupressus rhenana , because the use of this fossil-species name is preferable in the absence of definite evidence proving that the fossils correspond in all characters to the modern species Cupressus sempervirens , and not to other closely related species. M a t e r i a l. Leafy shoots (Monte Tondo MSF1551, MSF1552, MSF1553, MSF1554, MSF1556) and seed cone (Tossignano MSF1555).