Fossil fruit, Eomastixia, Miocene
Product number:
F5573
Product information "Fossil fruit, Eomastixia, Miocene"
Fruit from the lignite.
Age: Tertiary, Miocene;
Locality: Düren, Rhineland, Germany
Size: 3-4 cm
In the Tertiary period, waters in the Rhineland were so high that Lower Rhine bay was an ocean. Mangrove forests and coastal swamps of this time accumulated enough plant material to form large coal seams. This fruit is sometimes found in them.
The photo is a sample image. You will receive a specimen of comparable quality.
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