FOSSILS

Feature article: Fossils - 'Seeing is believing'

Worksheet one two (supplied by Ms Jess Ryan 2005 SMC)

• The main fossils found in Broome are leaf impressions, pollen grains and fossilised wood.

• 124-145 million years old

• This area at Gantheaume was possibly a river delta

• The ferns suggest a wet environment but warm conditions

• Six different species of ferns have been found

• These ferns had seeds rather than spores

• Northern Australia fossils

               

 

Fossilised wood and ferns
	Otozamites bengalensis is a common plant fossil found in Broome sandstone

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Two species of conifers or pines have been identified in the Broome sandstone - this one about 50 back from Gantheaume Point
Pine fossil
2005 - Year 10's examining fossils	Check out the leaf veins on this fossil - 130 000 000 year old
fossil wood and leaves