The best-preserved leaves occur in the gray clays beneath the dark organic layers. Detail of wood, x2. Fragment of hardwood , approximately natural size, and detail, x4.
Correct color is near black.
Presumably once round in cross section, the stem is now about 40 percent as thick as it is wide, a reduction to 40 percent its original volume, other dimensions the same. Note the absence of bark and appearance suggestive of transport by water. Specimen recovered by Robert Price. Carbonized oak leaf in soft laminated clay and silt. Image is approximately natural size.