Platycarya

  • Green River Fossil
    Photographer: Dov Scher : Field Museum of Natural History
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History
    Description: Angiosperm Catkin An as yet undescribed species Early Eocene (50 million years ago) Wyoming, USA Geology Specimen # PP43973 Individual Green River fossil specimens.
Catalog Number: PP 43973 A+B
Taxonomic Name: Platycarya
FM Catalog: Paleobotany
Phylum: Magnoliophyta
Identified By: Ellen Gieser : Field Museum of Natural History
Period: Paleogene
Earliest Epoch: Eocene
Earliest Age: Ypresian
Formation: Green River
Morphology: Catkin
Lithology: Laminated, whitish to buff colored layers of limestone
Member: Fossil Butte
Coordinates Available?: No
Collector: L. Grande
EMu IRN: 2297575
Occurrence ID: d24dea33-6924-43a7-b9ce-96f123617775

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