Sequoites dakotensis

Description

Sequoites dakotensis, previously known as Sequoia dakotensis, was a species of plant that existed during the end of the Cretaceous. Originally described as a coniferous tree in the genus Sequoia from fossils found in the U.S. state of North Dakota, further discoveries in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan indicate that it may have instead belonged to the genus Parataxodium. The species was first described by the paleobotanist Roland W. Brown in 1935 from fossilized cones found in the Hell Creek Formation along the Cannonball River in North Dakota. The cones had no natural connection to foliage, meaning no description of the species's foliage could be given; this was not unusual among Sequoia species described from fossils.