During the Triassic period Queensland had vast lake systems which gradually silted up with sediments eroded from the surrounding catchments. On the hills grew forests and scrub while smaller plants grew on the plains and near the water margins. Pieces of these plants were washed into the basins during floods leaving large deposits of plant fossils. Today these can be retrieved from the layers of silt

Below are some large plates cotaining such fragments. Click on each image for an enlargement and look closely at each one to identify remains of different plants.

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