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  • Corinne posted an update in the group Group logo of What is it?What is it? 3 years, 8 months ago

    3 years, 8 months ago
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Specimen 73904


    I can’t get the specimen entry to post to the group.  All the info I have on this is in the link.  Eocene from Utah, plant of some sort.  Would love an ID to update more fully.



    • @mackenzie-smith same here!

    • @samantha-ocon and @corinne-daycross I’m not quite sure. The dark reniform object may be a seed attached to an axis or that could be the wing of a fruit. It’s angiosperm, but other than that I can’t say. One of the challenges is that there isn’t a complete treatment of GRF flora or fruit, just isolated publications here and there on one or a handful of species.

    • @samantha-ocon and @corinne-daycross oh wait! I’m looking at it incorrectly! I think this is the floral bract of a Hydrangea! I see some venation of the bract and in the center (bottom of the bract) is where the flower would be. Order Cornales, Family Hydrangeaceae, Genus Hydrangea. I’m not putting a specific epithet on it because I don’t think we know the species yet. However, we do know Hydrangea from two other similarly aged formations, the Clarno Formation of Oregon and the Chuckanut Formation of Washington.

    • @mackenzie-smith thanks! if you click on the specimen link there are more pictures, the other side is a little lighter colored but shows some different details (I think). will update taxa when I get to a real computer, currently out collecting.