Hell Creek Dawn Redwood - Fossilized Metasequoia Cones

 "Bet you'll never look at pine cones the same way again..." LIMITED AVAILABILITY! The Hell Creek formation of North America is one of the most famous fossil hunting locations in the world. Spread over portions of North and South Dakota, Montana, and Wyoming, Hell Creek is a unique time capsule, capturing the final years of the dinosaurs as well as many other flora and fauna. Above: Exposures of the Upper Cretaceous Hell Creek and Lance formations in western North America. (Lamanna MC, Sues H-D, Schachner ER, Lyson TR - Lamanna MC, Sues H-D, Schachner ER, Lyson TR (2014) A New Large-Bodied Oviraptorosaurian Theropod Dinosaur from the Latest Cretaceous of Western North America. PLoS ONE 9(3): e92022. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0092022) Spanning the final years of the upper Cretaceous as well as the lower Paleocene, Hell Creek is also a witness to destruction. The iridium-rich layer of the K-Pg boundary which provides a physical record of the massive Chicxulub impact event. Above: Metas