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Hello everyone, greetings. I recently bought some fossil leaves. I contacted the seller and was surprised that the fossils were from here in Nicaragua, as I didn't know there were fossil sites here. I did not find information in pbdb navigator of the exact place where the seller found them since he collects them and found them himself, but in some studies on the net I found that the area of discovery is in the Brito Formation, a sector that covers a large part from the country's Pacific and dates from the Eocene, that is, from about 56 to 34 million years ago, which coincides with other description studies of some mammals found in this study area that I was able to read. My question is, is there any way to identify the leaves with a specific plant? I still haven't confirmed if what the seller told me is true that they are from here, but he assured me that they are, so much so that he offered me to go to the place where he found them, which I will probably go to in January next year to verify it on my own. I leave photos of the leaves that I took. These days I'll probably buy two more pieces from him that I also found from the seller in the same place.

Paul H. Meteorite impact craters found in Australia, Central America Cosmos Magazine, Andrew Masterson https://cosmosmagazine.com/geoscience/meteorite-impact-craters-found-in-australia-central-america Curtin University crater hunters score meteoric hole-in-one Curtain University https://news.curtin.edu.au/media-releases/curtin-university-crater-hunters-score-meteoric-hole-in-one/ Some of the papers are: Cox, M.A., Cavosie, A.J., Ferrière, L., Timms, N.E., Bland, P.A., Miljković, K., Erickson, T.M. and Hess, B., 2019. Shocked quartz in polymict impact breccia from the Upper Cretaceous Yallalie impact structure in Western Australia. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 54(3), pp.621-637. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/maps.13238 Dentith, M.C., Bevan, A.W.R. and McInerney, K.B., 1992. A preliminary investigation of the Yallalie Basin: a buried 15 km diameter structure of possible impact origin in the Perth Basin, Western Australia. Meteoritics, 27. http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1992Metic..27R.214D Dentith, M.C., Bevan, A.W.R., Backhouse, J., Featherstone, W.T. and Koeberl, C., 1999. Yallalie: a buried structure of possible impact origin in the Perth Basin, Western Australia. Geological Magazine, 136(6), pp.619-632. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/47387976_Yallalie_a_Buried_Structure_of_Possible_Impact_Origin_in_the_Perth_Basin_Western_Australia https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Will_Featherstone/2 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/geological-magazine/article/yallalie-a-buried-structure-of-possible-impact-origin-in-the-perth-basin-western-australia/0875C11713DCCD24BB7CA3135C060BB4 Rochette, P., Alaç, R., Beck, P., Brocard, G., Cavosie, A.J., Debaille, V., Devouard, B., Jourdan, F., Mougel, B., Moustard, F. and Moynier, F., 2019. Pantasma: Evidence for a Pleistocene circa 14 km diameter impact crater in Nicaragua. Meteoritics & planetary science, 54(4), pp.880-901. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/maps.13244 Yours, Paul H.