Pine cone fossils

Pine cone fossils

These are fossilised pine cones - well, certainly a seed cone of some kind. I can't say with absolute certainty that they are pine.

They are very cool though, and not the most common fossil - they fit with my favourite kind of fossils - ones that you can directly compare to modern creatures, plants, or animals.

They date from the Eocene and are found in Morocco, around the western Sahara.