1.8" Cypress (Chamaecyparis) Fossil - McAbee Fossil Beds, BC

This is a 4.3" wide flora fossil plate from the Tranquille Shale of Cache Creek, British Columbia. It contains a 1.75" "false cypress" branchlet of the genus Chamaecyparis.

Comes with an acrylic stand.

The Tranquille Shale of southern British Columbia was formed during the Eocene, about 50 million years ago: as diatoms in the lake bloomed and died in an ancient lake covering the region, fossils were preserved in the lakebed in accumulating fine layers of silt. In 2012 the McAbee Fossil Bed was acquired by the Canadian government and declared a Canadian Heritage Site, so no additional material will be coming to the market from the site.

Disclaimer: We are not paleobotanists, and as such our identification of these leaves may not be 100% accurate. We try our best to provide the most accurate result, but occasionally we fall short.
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DETAILS
SPECIES
Chamaecyparis sp.
LOCATION
McAbee Fossil Beds, Cache Creek, BC, Canada
FORMATION
Tranquille Shale
SIZE
Cypress: 1.8", Rock: 4.3 x 2.5" Rock
CATEGORY
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#221144
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