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Cardiospermum coloradoensis
A dark brown fossil on tan stone. The leaf is lobed with the lobes alternating on each side of the mid rib. The leaf curls slightly to the left and a crack in the stone crosses the fossil near its tip.
This small lobed leaf of a balloon vine occurs in great abundance in the Parachute Creek Member of the Green River Formation deposited by Lake Uinta in what is now Colorado and Utah. Specimen is approximately 4 cm long. Catalog number FOBU10725.
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Fossil Butte National Monument, Code: FOBU
Fossil Butte National Monument, Lincoln County, Wyoming
Latitude: 41.8563003540039, Longitude: -110.762001037598
Latitude: 41.8563003540039, Longitude: -110.762001037598
02/27/2008
02/27/2008
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FOBU10725 photo is FOBU11442 of RH-17.tif
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