Fossil Leaves From Del Puerto Canyon, Stanislaus County, California

Photographs courtesy anonymous geocaching investigators, who collected the fossils from a roadcut exposure along Del Puerto Canyon Road, Stanislaus County, California, in the upper Cretaceous (about 68 million years old) near-shore facies of the upper Cretaceous to Paleocene Moreno Formation. Specimen at top is carbonized wood. Leaf specimen at bottom is a closer look at the fossil at left in the second image.

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