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Description: | Fossilised leaves from a Alethopteris sp. pteridosperm plant. This is the remains of a seed fern. The leaves are dark grey in colour. The leaves are very well preserved and up to 30mm in length. The matrix is made up of a pale grey fine grained micaceous siltstone. There are two sections of other fossil plant remains preserved on the other end of the siltstone.AR/CB 16/04/2010
Part of a fossil pteridosperm plant called Alethopteris sp. 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 - Pennsylvanian |
Source: | Black Country History |
Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... |
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