Spruce cone: Picea, Pliocene, GER
Product number:
F880403
Product information "Spruce cone: Picea, Pliocene, GER"
Spruce cone from the opencast mine Garzweiler.
Age: Neogen, Pliocene;
Locality: Düren, Rhineland, Northrhine-Westphalia, Germany
Size: 5,5 - 3 cm
During the Tertiary period, the water in Rhineland rose so high that the Lower Rhine Bay was an ocean. The mangrove forests and coastal swamps of this period accumulated enough plant material that large coal seams were formed. Sometimes pine cones like this one can be found there.
The colours on the pictures may slightly differ from the original specimen.
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