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DURING study of phosphorites from the Georgina Basin of north-west Queensland, two fossil fragments, possibly stems of land plants, were discovered in insoluble residues from lime-phosphate rocks. The discovery is significant in being one of the very few of possible land plant remains in the early Palaeozoic.
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FLEMING, P., RIGBY, J. Possible Land Plants from the Middle Cambrian, Queensland. Nature 238, 266 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1038/238266a0
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