Svetlana Posted December 15, 2021 Share Posted December 15, 2021 Hello to all. The first pine cone in my collection; I would like to determine at least an approximate age. Thanks in advance Have a nice evening Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Svetlana Posted December 15, 2021 Author Share Posted December 15, 2021 P.S. Found in the north of Russia. Unfortunately, there is no more information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Svetlana Posted December 15, 2021 Author Share Posted December 15, 2021 @paleoflor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paleoflor Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 Sorry, Svetlana, I don't know. Beautiful specimen, though! Is there a geological map of the area where you found the specimen? Perhaps it could help you narrow down the age at least... 1 Searching for green in the dark grey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 Not really your cup of tea, @RuMert, I know. But may be you've heard of a location where these kind of fossil pine-cones are found? 'There's nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fibre and, in some cases, backbone' -- Terry Pratchett Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 I just noticed the tag spruce. It may be helpful to note that this is only the axis (core) of a larger cone. It's likely that the climate was not that of northern spruce forests today, but much warmer. There were Tertiary periods when that was the case. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RuMert Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 21 hours ago, pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon said: But may be you've heard of a location where these kind of fossil pine-cones are found? Nope, sorry. Maybe a search can help 1 My sites & reports Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Svetlana Posted December 20, 2021 Author Share Posted December 20, 2021 On 12/18/2021 at 2:12 PM, paleoflor said: Sorry, Svetlana, I don't know. Beautiful specimen, though! Is there a geological map of the area where you found the specimen? Perhaps it could help you narrow down the age at least... Thank you, Tim. Have no information on this specimen - i trade it; not my find. Just know, that it is from Russia and that's all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 It looks close to the Oligocene pine cones found in concretions of Steinhardt, Germany. " We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way. " Thomas Mann My Library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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