6.8" Pennsylvanian Fossil Flora Plate - Kentucky

This is a fossil flora plate from the Breathitt Formation of Leslie County, Kentucky. The plate contains Neuropteris sp., Macroneuropteris sp., Annularia sp. and Lepidodendron sp. fossils. 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.

Annularia is the genus and refers to the leaves or whorl of the jointed-stemmed plant, Calamites, a close relative of modern horsetails.

Lepidodendron is an extinct, primitive vascular tree-like plant most closely related to gill worts and club mosses. Documented fossil finds indicate that they grew up to 98ft (30 m) and had trunks 3.2ft (1 m) in diameter.

It comes with an acrylic display stand.