Lot 831
250 Million Year Old Colorful Red-Brown Leaves From Australia. Color doesn't fossilize, but you would not know it from this colorful collection of fossilized leaves. These leaves come from a strange kind of extinct seed fern, Glossopteris browniana known as a Pteridospermale that only grew in the Southern Hemisphere. This extremely large 20½"x13½" slab is full of many complete and partial leaves, the largest being over four inches long in various shades of rust brown to reddish brown, somewhat reminiscent of fall foliage. This most attractive and much larger specimen than usually found of this strange early tree of the late Permian Period was found in the Illawarra Coal Measure at Dunedoo, North S.W. Australia. Add $50 for domestic shipping.
Estimated Value $300 - 500.
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| Realized $230 |
