Leaf from Willershausen
Age: Pliocene (3 Million years)
Locality: Willershausen, Harz, Germany
Size: ca. 6 x 2,7 cm (2 in); Rock: 6,5 x 10 x 1,5 cm
This is an extremely well preserved leaf from the clay pit of Willershausen in the Harz mountains. This Pliocene Lagerstätte comprises thousands of years of fine lacustrine muds that have been secondarily dolomitized by saline groundwater. Like glacical deposits, the sedimentation can be used to observe seasonal changes. Cell structures and even plastids can be observed because of the depositional conditions and the young age of these fossils.
The colors on the pictures may differ slightly from the original due to technical reasons.
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