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Description: | Fossilised leaves from a Alelthopteris lonchitica pteridosperm plant. This is the remains of a seed fern. The leaves is dark grey in colour and very well preserved. The leaves contains a central stem with elongated leaflets with a central vein up to 40mm x 6mm in size. The veins on the leaflets have been preserved. The specimen consists of several leaves which overlap one another. The matrix is made up of a grey fine grained sediment. AR/CB 17/05/2010
Original label; Stamp paper; Blue margin; Illegible; On back of matrix; Red X
Part of a fossil pteridosperm plant called Alelthopteris lonchitica which is approximately 310 million years old |
License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ |
Publisher: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service |
Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service |
Subjects: | Fossils Geology Palaeontology Dr Fraser Collection |
Temporal: | Carboniferous - Pennysylvanian |
Source: | Black Country History |
Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... |
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