Description

Lepidostrobus
Cone
Pennsylvanian
Lykens #1 Coal – Posstville Formation
Audenried Village, Pennsylvania, USA

Big 50mm cone on 85mm matrix.  Late Carboniferous.

Lepidostrobus has been interpreted as a cone of a lycopod or a fruiting body (fructification) of a Lepidodendron tree.  Specimens are sometimes found pyritized.