Description
Seed
Early Eocene
London Clay
Isle of Sheppy, Kent, England
26mm seed from the famous London Clay Flora.
Here’s a fossil of a plant that drifted out to sea. The London Clay is famous for its marine fauna but a surprising amount of land plant fossils have been found in it too…as in several hundred species.
See:
“Fossil Plants of the London Clay” (The Palaeontological Society, 1983) by Margaret E. Collinson.