Aleurites

  • Green River Fossil
    Photographer: Dov Scher : Field Museum of Natural History
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History
    Description: Euphorbia leaf cf. Aleurites sp. Eocene Wyoming, USA Geology Specimen # PP17998 Individual Green River fossil specimens.
  • Leaves and flower
    Photographer: John Weinstein : Field Museum of Natural History - Photography Division
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History
    Description: Leaves and flower buds of a species that Brown (1937) called ?Ficus mississippiensis (Lesquereux, 1872), from the 18-inch layer of the FBM. This species does not belong in Ficus, and according to Manchester (personal communication, 2011) it is better left as Rosinae order, family and genus uncertain. Top Left) Specimen FMNH PP17998 from FBM Locality B with two leaves. The darker leaf is 123 millimeters long. Top Right) Specimen FMNH PP54657 from FBM Locality A on slab with two small flowers. Leaf is 165 millimeters long. Bottom) Two flower buds from above slab on right (digitally separated from each other). Left specimen is 25 millimeters long; right specimen is 19 millimeters long
Catalog Number: PP 17998
Taxonomic Name: Aleurites
FM Catalog: Paleobotany
Object Kind: Hand Specimen
Phylum: Magnoliophyta
Period: Paleogene
Earliest Epoch: Eocene
Earliest Age: Ypresian
Formation: Green River
Member: Fossil Butte
Coordinates Available?: No
Region/Area: Fossil Lake
Country: United States of America
State/Province/Territory: Wyoming
County: Lincoln
Township: Kemmerer
EMu IRN: 2254500
Occurrence ID: 9ee0d8d3-4860-41a5-979e-85ae90d30002

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