Miocene Plant Fossils from Idaho

Plant fossils:

Menispermum sp (Moonseed)

Order Ranunculales, Family Menispermaceae

Metasequoia sp (dawn redwood conifer)

Class Pinopsida, Order Pinales, Family Cupressaceae

Taxodium sp (conifer in cypress family)

Class Pinopsida, Order Pinales, Family Cupressaceae

Geological Time: Miocene

Size: Large plate maximum diagonal is ~ 5 inches, and the smaller is ~ 1.6 inches

Fossil Site: White Bird, Idaho

Code: ZPL144

Price: Sold

Description: The larger leaf fossil is a climbing vine in the moonseed family, in association with a sprig of dawn redwood. A smaller fossil is included with the frond of taxodium).

These plant fossils come from a very old collection, some 50 to 60 years old, the plant fossil collection of a husband and wife who combed more than 100 plant fossil sites, almost all west of the Mississippi River.

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