Name: Bennettitales;
Ptilophyllum pecten
Geological
Time: Middle Jurassic (~175 million years ago)
Size: 40
mm x 65 mm
Fossil Site:
Injune Creek Beds, Via Roma, Queensland, Australia
This
fossil comes the Jurassic of Australia, and represents fronds of
a cycadophyte named Pitilophyllum pectin. The light-colored fossil
is well contrasted by the dark matrix. Several other plant specimens
are found on the reverse, making for a fine example of a plant from
the time of the dinosaurs from a rare location that was the source
of the sauropod Rhoeotosaurus.
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