1.1" Cretaceous Fossil Ginkgo Leaf on Rock - Russia

This is a fossil Ginkgo leaf preserved on rock collected from the Middle Cretaceous Baikal Formation of Siberia, Russia.

It comes with an acrylic display stand.

During this time in the Paleocene epoch, the Ginkgo genus was only represented by a single polymorphic species, formerly described as Ginkgo adiantoides. In 2012, the taxon Ginkgo cranei was assigned in place of Ginkgo adiantoides. This species was distributed in much of the northern regions of North America, which had a hot, humid climate at the time. Its leaves were virtually indistinguishable from modern-day Ginkgo biloba. These species of Ginkgo went extinct approximately 7 million years ago.
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DETAILS
SPECIES
Ginkgo sp.
LOCATION
Siberia, Russia
FORMATION
Baikal Formation
SIZE
1.1" leaf on 2.6 x 1.8" rock
CATEGORY
ITEM
#129611
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