Middle Miocene

Chalk Mountain Diatomite

Chalk Mountain, Near Coonabarabran, Warrumbungle Mountains, NSW

NSW, Australia

Extremely rare 22mm flower on 75mm diatomite slab.

Flower, Angiosperm.

Ceratopetalum is a genus of plant of the Family Cunonciaceae.  It still lives today in Australia with the New South Wales Christmas bush (C. gummiferum) as perhaps its best-known species.