Fossil Pine Cone & Wood in Cross-Section (Old Collection) - Washington

This is something I'd never previously seen, fossil pine cones from Saddle Mountain in Washington. This is old collection material collected many decades ago from a site that has been "collected out" for a long time.

The slab represents a forest floor that was covered by an ash flow and petrified, just like petrified wood. The layer representing this forest floor was slabbed and polished revealing several pine cones in cross section.

This specimen Miocene in age and measures 4.4" wide with one detailed pine cone visible. What could be considered the backside of the specimen is almost entirely petrified wood with excellent detail preservation.

It comes with an acrylic display stand.