A Fossil Juniper Twig

Middle Miocene Buffalo Canyon Formation

Buffalo Canyon, Churchill County, Nevada

A twig from a species of juniper called Juniperus desotoyana, which is closely allied with the living Eastern Red Cedar, or the Pencil Cedar, native to North America, from Hudson Bay,all the way south to Florida. Of course, it is not a true cedar at all.

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