11.8" Pennsylvanian Fossil Flora Plate - Kentucky

Pennsylvanian Fossil Flora Plate - Kentucky #214186

This is a 11.8" wide plate that contains herbaceous horsetail (Sphenophyllum sp.) whorl fossils, seed fern (Neuropteris sp.) fossils, and a scale tree (Lepidodendron sp.) fossil, collected from the Breathitt Formation of Leslie County, Kentucky. These fossils come from the Late Carboniferous, Pennsylvanian-age forests that formed the coal shales of Eastern Kentucky and Ohio.

It comes with an acrylic display stand.

Neuropteris is an extinct genus of fern that reproduced from seed as opposed to sporophyte reproduction like most modern ferns. As with most seed ferns, Neurodontopteridaceae grew in tree form.