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Description: | Two fossilised leaves from a Neuropteris sp. pteridosperm plant. This is the remains of a seed fern. The leaves are dark brown in colour. The leaves are very well preserved and up to 34mm in length. The matrix is pale grey/brown and fine grained. It is part of an iron nodule. The detail on the individual leaflets has been well preserved. The largest of the two leaves has the lower section missing on the one side of the specimen. The smaller leaf has one complete side missing. The leaflets on the larger leaf are rounded in shape. AR/CB 04/05/2010
White label with blue border; Neuropteris Iron Nodule in Coal Measures
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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