| A mostly complete carbonized leaf (the tip is missing) from the Miocene analog of today's Goodding's willow. It is 58 millimeters long. Specimen came from the upper Miocene Hunter Creek Sandstone near Verdi, Washoe County, Nevada, a geologic rock deposit dated by radiometric analyses at 5.8 million years old. Photograph originally taken with a Minolta 35mm camera. |