180 Million year old Petrified fern bowl. This material has a stunning display of large perfectly preserved fern “eyes”. The bowl has inclusions of other plant fossils from the same time period embedded within one side of the material.
measurements - 22.5cm x 18cm x 9.5cm
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Just south of the Lune River in south-west Tasmania, in sediments underlying Jurassic basalt, lie the petrified remains of manfern-like plants from the Osmundacaulis genus.
These fossils are roughly 180 million years old!
Once upon a time, the area was covered in large trees and ferns much like most of the region still is today, but it was buried in the ash and lava from a volcanic eruption.
The buried trees and ferns were infiltrated by volcanicheated, silica-rich groundwaters that replaced the plants cell by cell, preserving most of their fine structures.
180 Million year old Petrified fern bowl. This material has a stunning display of large perfectly preserved fern “eyes”. The bowl has inclusions of other plant fossils from the same time period embedded within one side of the material.
measurements - 22.5cm x 18cm x 9.5cm
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Just south of the Lune River in south-west Tasmania, in sediments underlying Jurassic basalt, lie the petrified remains of manfern-like plants from the Osmundacaulis genus.
These fossils are roughly 180 million years old!
Once upon a time, the area was covered in large trees and ferns much like most of the region still is today, but it was buried in the ash and lava from a volcanic eruption.
The buried trees and ferns were infiltrated by volcanicheated, silica-rich groundwaters that replaced the plants cell by cell, preserving most of their fine structures.
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