Nut
Eocene
Clarno Formation
Clarno’s Ferry
Oregon, USA.

21mm nut on 70mm matrix from the famous Clarno Nut Beds locality. The seeds and nuts here are preserved as agate in a volcanic breccia. From the collection of Ruth Kirkby, a paleobotanist who made extensive collections all over the western United States between the mid 1940’s and the 1960’s. The site is now part of a national park and can no longer be collected.

See: Manchester, S. R. (1994). Fruits and seeds of the Middle Eocene nut beds flora, Clarno Formation, Oregon. Paleoutographica Americana, 58, 1-205.