4.3" Pennsylvanian Fern (Neuropteris) Plate - Kentucky

This is a 2.9" fossil seed fern (Neuropteris) plate, from the Breathitt Formation, Leslie County, Kentucky. This specimen is two pinnules (branch of leaflets). It comes from the Late Carboniferous, Pennsylvanian aged forests that formed the coal shales of Kentucky and Ohio. It is beautifully preserved and shows detailed leaflet venation.

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.