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Cenozoic Era: 65.5 Million Years to Present
Oligocene Epoch: 33.9-23 Million Years Ago
Gallery: Louisiana

Palmoxylon
Cenozoic; Paleogene; Oligocene
Catahoula Formation
Louisiana, USA
11.5 cm x 7 cm x 14 cm tall
The Shreveport Collection

This specimen has intense colors that vary greatly along the rim. The first two images were taken with a Canon PowerShot SD770 IS Digital ELPH 10.0 MEGA PIXELS, cropped and resized in Adobe Photoshop CS6. The images were taken in sunlight outside.


The next four images were taken with a Dino-Lite AD7013 MT 5.0 MP. Images were resized in Adobe Photoshop CS6. The first image was taken at 80x the next two are 150x. The lavender colors seem to wash out at higher magnification.


The images below shows two fibrous bundles at 250x.

 

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