<p>A dark brown fossil on tan stone.  The leaf is lobed with the lobes alternating on each side of the mid rib.  The leaf curls slightly to the left and a crack in the stone crosses the fossil near its tip.</p>
<p>This small lobed leaf of a balloon vine occurs in great abundance in the Parachute Creek Member of the Green River Formation deposited by Lake Uinta in what is now Colorado and Utah.  Specimen is approximately 4 cm long.  Catalog number FOBU10725.</p>
NPS Photo
Taken on 27 February 2008
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