Fossil Forest of Dunarobba

Fossil Forest of Dunarobba

Nation: Italy
Region: Umbria
Province: Terni
Municipality: Avigliano Umbro

These are plant remains in a fossil state that have remained in their living position, immersed in the “clayey-sandy” compound of the Upper Villafrancan continental sequence.

Trunk dimension: over one and a half metres diameter by over eight metres length

Trunk peculiarity: preserved in a vertical position; pre-lignite fossilization state

Existing species: Taxodium sp., Nissa sp.; leaf intercalation, Gastropods and rare fragments of fish and crustaceans

Deterioration risk: high

Type of deterioration: meteoric agents

Bibliography:

Ambrosetti et alii, 1988

Commission of the European Communities 1988- Natural analogues and evidence of long- Term isolation capacity of clays occurring in Italy