Description

Walchia sp.

Pennsylvanian

Atrasado Formation, Tinajas Member.

Kinney Brick Quarry, NM USA.

59mm branch on 79mm slab.

Plant.  Carboniferous.

Walchia is an extinct genus of conifer that lived from the Late Pennsylvanian to at least the end of the Permian with reports of it having survived into the Triassic.  It is known from sites all over the world (North America, Europe, North Africa, China, Thailand, and the Korean Peninsula).

The Kinney Brick Quarry is one of those special fossil localities that yields plant and animal fossils.