5.7" Fossil Leaf Plate - Green River Formation, Utah

Fossil Leaf Plate - Green River Formation, Utah #256814

This is an interesting fossil leaf plate from the Green River Formation, Utah. It contains light-colored leaves: a larger (2.8" including stem) leaf fragment possibly of the genus Platycarya, and a smaller one (1.25"), possibly of the genus Rhus.

While the Green River Formation is best know for its fish fossils, other areas produce incredible plant fossils.

It comes with an acrylic display stand.

A note on Green River leaf identifications. Over 60 described leaf bearing plants have been identified from this formation, many of which have very similar leaves. We have done our best to provide identifications based on the resources available to us, but we are not paleobotany experts and cannot guarantee that all will be 100% correct.

SPECIES

Platycarya sp.? & Rhus sp.?

AGE

Eocene (~51 million years)