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7.8" Fossil Fern (Neuropteris & Macroneuropteris) Plate - Kentucky
This is a fossil seed fern plate from the Breathitt Formation of Leslie County, Kentucky. It contains a collection of two different genus' of ferns (Neuropteris & Macroneuropteris). 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.
It comes with an acrylic display stand.
Neuropteris and Macroneuropteris are extinct genera of seed ferns that reproduced from seed as opposed to sporophyte reproduction of most modern ferns.
It comes with an acrylic display stand.
SPECIES
Neuropteris sp. & Macroneuropteris sp.
LOCATION
Leslie County, Kentucky
FORMATION
Breathitt Formation
SIZE
7.8 x 5.1" rock
CATEGORY
ITEM
#142435
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