8.5" Pennsylvanian Fern (Neuropteris) Plate - Kentucky

This is a fossil seed fern (Neuropteris) plate, from the Breathitt Formation, Leslie County, Kentucky. It contains a collection of stalks, pinnule (branch of leaflets) and leaflets of two different species of Neuropteris. One is N flexuosa, the other is not identified to species (Neuropteris sp.). It comes from the Late Carboniferous, Pennsylvanian aged forests that formed the coal shales of Kentucky and Ohio.

Neuropteris is genus of seed fern, extinct species of fern that reproduced from seed as opposed to sporophyte reproduction of most modern ferns.

It comes with an acrylic display stand.