Among Tasmania’s earthly treasures are the spectacular but little known fossil ferns from Lune River.
Complex geological forces combined to preserve the trunks of ferns and other plants growing in a Jurassic forest here 180 million years ago.
This book provides a background to fossicking in the Lune River area and the close cooperation between amateur fossicker and professional palaeobotanist. Twelve tree ferns and one bracken-type fern have been studied and named.
Chapter 10 presents a guide for the amateur collector to identify these fossil ferns from “The Lune”.