A beautifully preserved fossil forest uncovered on a river bank in Japan has been described in detail for the first time.
Most of the stumps have since been submerged once more, but researchers have successfully examined 137 of them, and the surrounding fossilized leaves.
They've now published their analysis of the site and provided a picture of the plants that once covered the wooded area.To understand why this is so cool, you need to know that it's incredibly rare to find plant fossils in one piece. Unlike animals, one part of the plant, whether it's the seed, leaf, or fruit, usually detaches over its lifetime, so fossils are rarely found together.
As a result, when talking about plant fossils, scientists actually give all organs – leaves, fruit, or trunks –It's then a challenge to piece together the different trunks and leaves and work out which belonged to which. This forest offers a rare opportunity because one type of trunk and one type of leaf were clearly dominant in the area. Of the 137 stumps examined, 130 were identified asis a wood-fossil, recognized by its distinctive growth rings, abundant parenchyma rays and lack of resin canals,"
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