TEXAS FOSSILISED PALM WOOD (LARGE AND VERY THIN SLICE) - 30 million years old - USA

TEXAS FOSSILISED PALM WOOD

30 million years old (Oligocene epoch)

Texas, USA

Very large, but very thin (6mm), unpolished slice of fossilised palm wood from the Catahoula Formation in Western Louisiana and Texas.

Palm wood is a fibrous material that surrounded hollow tubes through which the plant transported water and nutrients. When the fossilised wood is cut perpendicular to the trunk these tubes can be seen as closely packed dots.