Image 4 (IMAGE)

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

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The authors compared the cuticle structure of modern leaves (pictured above under epifluorescence microscopy) with fossil leaf cuticles to create a model for canopy cover. Scale bar is 50 microns (0.05 mm).
 

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Image by Dr. Regan Dunn

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