Fine Eocene Moonseed Fossil Leaf

Menispermites limacoides

Family Menispermaceae

Geological Time: Eocene

Size (25.4 mm = 1 inch): Leaf: 88 mm by 50 mm. with 20 mm petiole Matrix: 120 mm by 100 mm

Fossil Site: Green River Shale, Uintah County, Utah

Code: PF058

Price: $40.00 - sold

Description: The Green River Formation deposits of Wyoming, Colorado, and Utah are best known for their immaculately-preserved fish, but other examples are known as well, as this specimen attests. This leaf from a tree of the Moonseed Family, a type of tree that was at its height of diversity during the Cretaceous 50,000 square miles of what is now Utah, Wyoming, and Colorado were covered by large lakes during the Eocene.

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