4.2" Polished Petrified Cycad Slab - England

This is a 4.2" wide, polished section of petrified Cycad from Sandsend, North Whitby, England. It comes with an acrylic display stand.

Cycads are woody, stout, slow-growing plants of the order Cycadales. They are superficially similar to palms with broad, feather-like leaves and rough scaly exteriors. However, they are only distantly related. Cycads are a very old group of terrestrial plants, existing since at least the early Permian, and have persisted in varying states of success into the modern day. Cycads are gymnosperms, meaning that they bear seeds in cones, and can live for thousands of years. Cycads have scaly exteriors on their thick stems, which, coupled with their pinnate foliage, make excellent fossils.
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DETAILS
SPECIES
Cycad sp.
LOCATION
Sandsend, Whitby, North Yorkshire, England
FORMATION
Upper Lias, Falciferum Zone
SIZE
4.2 x 3.2", .6" thick
CATEGORY
ITEM
#242188
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