3.3" Pennsylvanian Fossil Fern (Pecopteris) Plate - West Virginia

This is a 3.3" section of rock containing fern (Pecopteris sp.) fossils, collected from Coal Country, West Virginia. Pecopteris is an extinct genus of seed ferns that flourished during the Carboniferous period, and can be found throughout many of the Late Carboniferous, Pennsylvanian-aged deposits of Eastern North America.