10.15" Fossil Plant Plate - McAbee, BC

This is a 10.15" fossil leaf plate from the McAbee fossil beds of British Columbia, Canada. It displays a 3.7" Prunus sp. leaf with lovely toothed margins with a 1.25" Metasequoia sp. needle branchlet and various impressions of twigs. The reverse side also contains a partial branchlet of Thuja sp. scale-like leaves and buds.

This specimen comes with an acrylic display stand.

The Tranquille Shale of southern British Columbia was formed during the Eocene, about 50 million years ago: as diatoms in the lake bloomed and died in an ancient lake covering the region, fossils were preserved in the lakebed in accumulating fine layers of silt. In 2012 the McAbee Fossil Bed was acquired by the Canadian government and declared a Canadian Heritage Site, so no additional material will be coming to the market from the site.

Disclaimer: We are not paleobotanists, and as such our identification of these leaves may not be 100% accurate. We try our best to provide the most accurate result, but occasionally we fall short.