Natural Science Forum / Biology / Paleontology / May 2005

Over at http://members.aol.com/Waucoba5/ione/ioneproject.html I've
uploaded my new web page, "Fossil Plants Of The Ione Basin,
California." It's all about my many field trips to the leaf-bearing
Middle Eocene Ione Formation of the Ione Basin, Amador County, in the
western foothills of California's Sierra Nevada--the so-called "Eocene
Ione Formation Project." I've included lots of images of fossil leaves,
Ophiomorpha trace fossils (the combined dwelling and feeding burrows of
some kind of shrimp-like animal) and rare Montan Wax-bearing lignites
(from California's only active coal mine-it's located in the Ione
Basin) from the Middle Eocene Ione Formation--plus numerous on-site
photographs and accompanying text accounts of several of my more
memorable field trips to the fossilifeous areas of the Ione Basin.