The Copper Basin Fossil Plant Locality, Nevada

Upper Eocene Dead Horse Tuff

A fossil seeker explores the fine-grained Dead Horse tuffaceous shales at Copper Basin, Nevada. The view is roughly westward across a fossil plant locality in the upper Eocene Dead Horse Tuff that yields some 42 species of 38 to 39 million year-old paleobotanical material.

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