Leaf fossil

[piegrande]

I live in the mountains in Puebla, Mexico. The hills are made of travertine marble, which is a marble produced by water action, not by volcanic heat. Cousins were excavating in slightly softer material to build a house, and encountered some fossils.

We are not sure these fossils are millions of years old, because some of the rock is still soft, but we really don't know.

One cousin gave me this rock with the leaf in it. Sorry I can't seem to get a better picture. The scaler is a current Mexican ten peso coin.

I have posted other fossil pictures in the past, including a reverse of a mollusk, and an ancient fish in flagstone. This place is a fossil hunter's paradise.

Edit: had to shrink the photo to get it to load. Sorry.

 

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[piegrande]

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[old digger]

Cannot view?

 

[piegrande]

Me, neither, though at the time I Loaded it, I could. Let me try again. I had trouble getting it to upload so that may have something to do with it. I thought I was inserting it in the page when that link appeared, not the photo.

This confused me, because I have posted photos in the past.

 

[piegrande]

I uploaded it again, and this time the image appears in the posting. Coin is a Mexican 10 pesos bi-metal coin.

 

[Age_old]

Cool!