6.6" Pennsylvanian Age Fossil Plant Plate - Kentucky

This is a fossil seed fern plate from the Breathitt Formation of Leslie County, Kentucky. It contains a collection of fern leaflets of two different genus' of ferns (Neuropteris & Macroneuropteris) and fossil horsetail (Sphenophyllum sp.) leaves. It comes from the Late Carboniferous, Pennsylvanian aged forests that formed the coal shales of Kentucky and Ohio.

Neuropteris and Macroneuropteris are extinct genera of seed ferns that reproduced from seed as opposed to sporophyte reproduction of most modern ferns. Sphenophyllum is an extinct genus of herbaceous horsetail from the Late Carboniferous, Pennsylvanian aged forests that formed the coal shales of Eastern Kentucky and Ohio.

It comes with an acrylic display stand.