LEPIDOSROBUS SP - COAL MEASURES, LANCASHIRE.

Lepidostrobus sp.

3D cone from a giant Lycopod tree. In a split nodule. From the famous locality of Crock Hay now sadly filled in and grassed over. Lovely preservation and detail. 

Carboniferous, Westphalain, Duckmantian, Shale above the Wigan 9 foot Coal.
Crock hay Opencast pit near Wigan, Lancashire.

Cone : 3.8 cm long.