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Description: | A fossil plant identified as Neuropteris gigantea within one half of an ironstone nodule. The Neuropteris has a thin stem which has been poorly preserved, with many leaves ranging from 8mm to 26mm long. The individual leaves are very well preserved with the veins still visible. A number of leaves have been broken on the lower and upper part of the specimen. The fossil is preserved by coal within a pale grey ironstone nodule, which has been repaired. There are some smaller, less well preserved leaves around the sides of the main specimen. AR/CB
A fossil plant identified as a Neuropteris gigantea, which is about 310 million years old from Coseley | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Sandwell Museums | Rights holder: | Sandwell Museums | Subjects: | Geology Palaeontology | Temporal: | Carboniferous - Pennsylvanian - Moscovian | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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