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English: Fossil palm frond (cf. Sabal) from the Cretaceous of Colorado, USA. (public display, Red Rocks Amphitheater visitor center, west of Denver, Colorado, USA)

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This 70 million-year-old palm fossil grew along the shoreline of the Western Interior Seaway and is evidence of the warm climate of the Cretaceous Period, when North America was closer to the equator.

Classification: Plantae, Angiospermophyta, Arecales, Palmae/Arecaceae

Stratigraphy: unspecified (but likely from the Laramie Formation), Maastrichtian Stage, upper Upper Cretaceous, ~70 Ma

Locality: unspecified (but likely from the Golden area of Colorado, USA)
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Author James St. John

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