Fruit-branch of Banskia, taken from impressions left in rocks from the Eocene Epoch. It is different from any modern-day Banksia. Illustration from Louis Figuier's The World Before the Deluge, 1867 American edition.
Fruit-branch of Banskia, taken from impressions left in rocks from the Eocene Epoch. It is different from any modern-day Banksia. Illustration from Louis Figuier's The World Before the Deluge, 1867 American edition.
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