Fossil Evergreen Live Oak Leaf

Middle Miocene Buffalo Canyon Formation

Buffalo Canyon, Churchill County, Nevada

A mostly complete leaf (stem is missing) from the evergreen live oak Quercus pollardiana, a Miocene analog of the living maul oak, native to the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada, eastern California.

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