Palm fossil with Fish, Wy Green River Formation

Palm fossil with Fish, Wy  Green River Formation Prehistoric Online
Palm fossil with Fish, Wy  Green River Formation Prehistoric Online
Palm fossil with Fish, Wy  Green River Formation Prehistoric Online
Palm fossil with Fish, Wy  Green River Formation Prehistoric Online

This beautiful palm frond fossil contains 1 knightia fish and dates back 50-55million years ago.  The palm measures 74×40 inches.  This is a spectacular wall specimen.

$15,000.00

SKU: db-palm-3533

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Palm fossil with Fish, Wy Green River Formation

The Green River Formation is an Eocene geologic formation that records the sedimentation in a group of intermountain lakes in three basins along the present-day Green River in Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah. The sediments are deposited in very fine layers, a dark layer during the growing season and a light-hue inorganic layer in the dry season. Each pair of layers is called a varve and represents one year. The sediments of the Green River Formation present a continuous record of six million years.  The various fossil beds of the Green River Formation span a 5 million year period, dating to between 53.5 and 48.5 million years old. This span of time includes the transition between the moist early Eocene climate and the slightly drier mid-Eocene. The climate was moist and mild enough to support crocodiles, which do not tolerate frost, and the lakes were surrounded by sycamore forests. As the lake configurations shifted, each Green River location is distinct in character and time. The lake system formed over underlying river deltas and shifted in the flat landscape with slight tectonic movements, receiving sediments from the Uinta highland and the Rocky Mountains to the east and north.

Fossil palms are not overly rare but complete full specimens with fish are highly prized.

Weight 3200 oz
Dimensions 80 × 40 × 12 in
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