| Viewing perspective is northeast. A long train passes close to a classic fossil leaf locality in the vicinity of Verdi, eastern side of the Sierra Nevada, Washoe County, Nevada. Elevation here is presently 4,800 feet, but the late Miocene plants preserved in a railroad cut nearby demonstrate that 5.8 million years ago this same scene could not have been any higher than around 2,500 feet, resembling in botanic associations the modern California Gold Country, from Placerville south to Jackson, western foothills of the Sierra Nevada. A Google street car image I edited and processed though photoshop. |