Yea Flora Fossil Site

The Yea Flora Fossil Site is a roadside cutting on Limestone Road, Yea, Victoria, Australia. It contains fossils of genus Baragwanathia, some of the world’s earliest vascular plants dating back to the late Silurian period, 420 million years ago.[1][2][3]

The fossils were discovered in 1875, but the significance was not recognized until they were studied in the 1930s by Australian botanist Isabel Cookson.[4] Her work overturned long held scientific understandings of how and when plants evolved.

The site is listed on the Australian National Heritage List.[1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Yea Flora Fossil Site", National Heritage Places (Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities), retrieved 2012-01-31
  2. ↑ "Flora Fossil Site - Yea (entry AHD105851)". Australian Heritage Database. Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities.
  3. ↑ Yea Flora Fossil Site, Murrindinti Shire, retrieved 2012-01-31
  4. ↑ Lang, William H.; Cookson, Isabel C. (1935). "On a flora, including vascular land plants, associated with Monograptus, in rocks of Silurian age, from Victoria, Australia." (PDF). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 224 (517): 421–449. doi:10.1098/rstb.1935.0004. Retrieved 2012-01-31.

Coordinates: 37°13′15″S 145°26′57″E / 37.22083°S 145.44917°E / -37.22083; 145.44917


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