Eocene Poplar Leaf Fossil

Populus willmattae

Family: Salicaceae

Geological Time: Eocene

Size (25.4 mm = 1 inch): Leaf: 58 mm by 73 mm. with 15 mm petiole Matrix: 110 mm by 95 mm

Fossil Site: Green River Shale, Uintah County, Utah

Code: PF059

Price: $35.00 - 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 Willow family.The presence of this tree is indicative of the lakeside environment in which it lived. Some 50,000 square miles of what is now Utah, Wyoming, and Colorado were covered by large lakes during the Eocene.

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