Many extinct Picea (spruce tree) species have been identified from fossil evidence of different plant parts, including cones, leaves, pollen, seeds, and wood. The name of each species is followed by the name of the authority who first described it.

Cones

†Picea anadyrensis †Picea antiqua †Picea beckii †Picea bilibinii †Picea burtonii †Picea camtschatica †Picea deweyensis †Picea diettertiana †Picea eichhornii †Picea evenica †Picea fimbriata †Picea garoensis †Picea harrimani †Picea hondoensis †Picea indigirensis †Picea latibracteata †Picea latisquamosa †Picea metechensis †Picea mioorientalis †Picea mugodzharica †Picea oligocaenica †Picea pevekensis †Picea praeajanensis †Picea protopicea †Picea sookensis †Picea sugaii †Picea suifunensis †Picea vassiljevii †Picea vitjasii †Picea wolfei †Picea wollosowiczii †Picea yanensis

Foliage

†Picea cretacea †Picea echinata †Picea korfiensis †Picea lahontensis †Picea morosovae †Picea nakauchii †Picea palaeomorika †Picea quilchensis †Picea tranquillensis

Pollen

†Picea alata †Picea bella †Picea complanatiformis †Picea depressa †Picea distorta †Picea distracta †Picea exilioides †Picea gigantissima †Picea grandipollinia †Picea grandis †Picea grandivescipites †Picea kryshtofovichii †Picea longisaccata †Picea media †Picea mesophytica †Picea minor †Picea multigruma †Picea omoriciformis †Picea parvireticulata †Picea pseudorotundiformis †Picea rara †Picea sacculifera †Picea samoilovitchiana †Picea schrenkianiformis †Picea scotica †Picea singularis †Picea spirelliformis †Picea sutschanensis †Picea tasaranica †Picea tobolica †Picea valanjinica

Seeds

†Picea altaica †Picea hiyamensis †Picea kaneharae †Picea kanoi †Picea magna †Picea pinifructus †Picea sonomensis

Wood †Picea palaeomaximowiczii †Picea wakimizui †Picea withamii

Multiple organs

†Picea columbiensis †Picea critchfieldii - Late Quaternary North America. †Picea farjonii †Picea heisseana †Picea koribae †Picea miocenica †Picea rotundosquamosa †Picea ugoana

Unspecified †Picea alba †Picea albertensis †Picea snatolensis

Fossil species formerly placed in Picea †Picea cliffwoodensis moved to †Pityostrobus cliffwoodensis †Picea succinifera moved to Pinus succinifera

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