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This fossil palm leaf is on display in the Fossil Butte Visitor Center. The existance of palm fossils in the Green River Formation shows that when the sediments were deposited in this portion of the Green River Basin in Eocene time that the climate was subtropical and probably close to sea level in elevation.

The URL of this page is: http://3dparks.wr.usgs.gov/2006/fossilbutte/html2/fossil18.htm

All color photography on this website was taken by Phil Stoffer (USGS) unless otherwise stated on the image caption text. All images are "public domain."

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