Eocene Metasequoia (Dawn Redwood) Plant Fossil

Name: Fossil Plant - leaf of Metasequoia tree

Age: Eocene

Size: mm (25.4mm=1 inch): matrix: 9.3 by 7 inches; Leaves: 5 & 2.5 inches.

Location: McAbee Quarry; Cache Creek, Tranquille Shale, Kamloops Group, British Columbia, Canada

Code: CP19

Price: $60.00 - Sold

Metasequoia (Dawn Redwood) Plant FossilThis is a very pretty single leaf fossil from Cache Creek in British Columbia. It is from a Metasequoia, or Dawn Redwood (Family: Taxodiaceae - a Conifer that unlike the predominant evergreen Conifers was actually deciduous). The 5-inch leaf is about as large as they come. This is a showy fossil plate.

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