The Fossil Hunter Find - August/September 1998

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The Fossil Find of the Year - 1998

Monanthesia stantoni

Extinct Mesozoic Cycadeoid Plant

(Veggie Dinosaurs ate this!)

Upper Cretaceous

~ 100 million years old

2nd specimen ever found in California and in the World - the first was found by Dr. T. W. Stanton on September 19, 1900 in Colusa County, CA

Collecting Fossils in California Website reported this important find done by an amateur to the paleobotanical community and because of its importance and rarity has been awarded 'The Fossil Find of the Year - 1998'

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Collected in Vallejo , California by Marion K. more info...