S. smythii (NHMW-GEO-2024/0188/10405)

3D Model

This is a fossilised fruit Spondylostrobus smithii. Fruits like this are extremely rare in the fossil record, especially since it has not undergone distortion during burial.

This object is part of the historical ‘Ettingshausen collection’, which is on permanent loan from the Institute of Biology, University of Graz. It is not currently on display.

Specimen: Coalified fruit with seeds preserved

Inventory number: NHMW-GEO-2024/0188/10405

Collection: NHMW, Geology & Palaeontology Dept., Palaeobotany (curator: Chris Mays)

Origin: near Haddon, southwest of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia

Find out more about the NHM Vienna here.

Scanned & edited by A. Haider (NHMW)

Scanner: Artec Space Spider

Contribution to the digitization project „Einsichten in die gesellschaftspolitische Dimension des NHMW über die Jahrhunderte von der Prägung des Wissenschafts-Verständnisses bis zum Nationalpark in der Lobau“ funded by the BMWKMS.