Kansas Fossil Palm Root Identification
Fossil Palm Root is a realistic Kansas fossil profile built around silicified palm tissue known from Gulf and western subtropical deposits. In this state, success usually comes from learning red beds, chalk cuts, and dry creek gravels, then timing runoff, reservoir drawdown, surf cuts, or road work that exposes fresh fossil-bearing rock instead of hunting blindly.
Key Traits
- ●fibrous bundle pattern
- ●silicified root or stem texture
- ●brown chalcedony replacement
- ●Check red beds, chalk cuts, and dry creek gravels
Era
Eocene-Miocene
Type
plant
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