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Description: | A fossilised leaf from a ?Neuropteris sp. pteridosperm plant. This is the remains of a seed fern. The leaf is dark grey in colour and very well preserved. The leaf contains a central stem with small leaflets up to 9mm x 4mm in size. The veins on the leaflets have been preserved. Towards the bottom of the leaf the specimen is missing on one side. The matrix is made up of a pale grey fine grained sediment. AR/CB 17/05/2010
Part of a fossil pteridosperm plant called ?Neuropteris 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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