My name is Schuman with RCD/NFCD. Attached may look like the fossil leave your wife found during the trip to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia we took early this year. Please pass it to her. If possible please send me a photo of the fossil. I will try to put up a Cretaceous paleo-geography story.
Best regards,
Schuman
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Andrew,
Thanks for the photos. Looks great! By the way, the species is called genus Agathis. Its modern day offspring only live in restricted areas in New Zealand and Australia (both formerly belong to Gondwana). Agathis produces lots resin and abundant ambles were found in the formation (offshore wells Saudi Arabia, in Lebanon and Israel etc.). There was an Agathis forest existed in the broad Middle East Region in Mid Cretaceous (maybe was the largest in the world ever existed) and there are evidences indicating offshore oil in Khafji was originated from the Agathis coal.
Best regards,
Schuman
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