Description

Oligocene
Creede Formation
Creede, Colorado, USA
Very good partial 2 inch cone. Rare
Cone, Conifer.

Pinus is the genus that includes pine trees.  The oldest known pine cone dates back to the Early Cretaceous of Belgium.

Here is a fossil pine cone from a time when world climates were trending cooler with ice forming at the poles for the first time since the Permian Period.