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Fossil Leaf Id


zanti_ago

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Hello everyone, sorry I wanted to see if they could help me try to identify this fossil leaf. It was a gift from a friend several years ago, the most probable is that it comes from mexico. Although it could also be false. Well I hope you can help me thank you very much

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It's not fake. It's a very nice fossil of a leaf.

That's about as much as I can tell you. Looks like it is about 6 inches long?

More people should have more info.

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has it been coated in something shiny?

Looks to be lacquered.

Would it be possible to see a close up shot of the side of the matrix? I'd like to verify that it is indeed sedimentary stone.

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Look like it's once was much bigger kinda tropical leaf look to it. A lot of bottom part are missing and most of the edge

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I'd say the matrix is sandstone and it looks like a possible match with something similar to this Corylus (Hazel) leaf:

 

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Brown, R.W. (1962)
Paleocene flora of the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains.
USGS Professional Survey Paper, 375:1-119
 
 
 

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Thank you very much everyone for your responses. The fossil measures about 4 inches and is very porous stone and melts easily in the week I took a picture of the array. It is very similar to the photo that went up piranha. Again thank you very much to all.

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Excuse me, is that I use a translator and sometimes changed much the sense of the words. What I mean is that it is very porous.

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