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            Ginkgo
                                                                                           GINKGO LEAF AND
                                                                                      SEQUOIA STEM




                                                                           Age : 54 to 37 million years old

                                                                        Size: Ginkgo leaf, 5 centimeters (2 in), 5.8 centimeters (2.3
                                                                        in)

                                                                        Location: British Columbia

                                                                        Formation: Cache Creek Formation

                                                                        Period: Eocene

                                                                        The ginkgo tree is a living fossil that belongs to its own
                                                                        class of Ginkgophyta. The oldest known examples date
                                                                        back 270 million years. The fossil ginkgo leaf shown here
                                                                        is between 54 and 37 million years old. These trees have
                                                                        been the same for hundreds of millions of years—a
                                                                        challenge to the theory of evolution.



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