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Nice Unidentified Fruiting Body With Associated Insects
Stock Number  FPSU07

Name:   Unidentified Fruiting Body
Age:  Eocene
Formation:  Green River
Location:  Near Bonanza, Utah
Size:  Fruit is 0.3 inches wide and 0.4 inches long.

This is a cute, unidentified fruiting body from the Eocene of Utah. The specimen has great color and contrast. It is very finely detailed. The fruiting body is well centered on the natural plate of matrix. There are at least four fossil insects, including a beetle, on the same piece of shale. This is a very nice fruiting body associated with insects from the Green River Shale.