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Cenozoic Era: 65.5 Million Years to Present
Oligocene Epoch: 33.9-23 Million Years Ago

Gallery Texas
Palm Trunk and Roots
Palmoxylon
Cenozoic; Paleogene; Oligocene
Catahoula Formation
Fayette County, TX
41 cm x 30 cm

The first two images were taken with a Canon PowerShot SD770 IS Digital ELPH 10.0 MEGA PIXELS, cropped and resized in Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0. The images were taken in sunlight outside. Both images show the transition zone between the Palmoxylon trunk and the Rhizopalmoxylon (roots).

Rhizopalmoxylon
Rhizopalmoxylon

The next three images were taken with a Dino-Lite AD7013 MT 5.0 MP. Images were resized in Adobe Photoshop CS6. The first image shows a palm root at 60x. The second and third image show vascular bundles at 250x.

Rhizopalmoxylon
Palmoxylon Vascular Bundle
Vascular Bundle
 

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