Description

Oligocene

Florissant Shale

Florissant, Colorado, USA

14mm cone on 60mm slab from the famous Florissant Fossil Beds

Cone, Conifer.

Chamaecyparis is a genus of conifers that includes the false cypress tree.  It has been reported from the Cretaceous but is better known from the Early Cenozoic.  In the Florissant Formation both foliage (leaves, branchlets) and cones of Chamaecyparis are found.