Description

Early Jurassic (Lower Hettangian)

Zagaje Formation

Holy Cross Mountains, Poland

10mm cycad seed on 54mm matrix from an unusual locality.

Seed, Cycad.

Cycadocarpidium, a Triassic to Cretaceous genus, was first considered a fructification of a cycad and then it was interpreted as a conifer or relative of conifers.  At least one researcher has stated it is related to the Order Bennittitales (cycadeoids).