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Very cool specimen! Perhaps @mackenzie-smith can help with ID!

@mackenzie-ross-2 @patrick-hsieh It’s in the family Curpressaceae for sure. I don’t know if can be narrowed down further. I believe Chamaecyparis (like Port Orford Cedar) is known from Florissant but I don’t know if there are other members of the same family with similar foliage types that have been found there (Thuja, Cupressus…).

@mackenzie-smith @mackenzie-ross-2 Thanks! I looked in my copy of Herbert Meyer’s The Fossils of Florissant and there is only 1 species listed for Cupressaceae: Chamaecyparis linguaefolia (Lesquereux). I’m not sure if there are other members that have been documented in the literature since it was published in 2003.

@patrick-hsieh That must be it then because I just checked the supplementals of Allen et al. 2020 and that was the only cupressaceous taxa listed there.