5.5" Pennsylvanian Fossil Flora Plate - Kentucky

This is a beautiful fossil flora plate that contains a well preserved Asterophyllites fossil, a Lepidodendron sp. fossil, Annularia sp. whorls and Neuropteris sp. leaves. This plate was collected from the Breathitt Formation of Leslie County, Kentucky. It comes from the Late Carboniferous, Pennsylvanian aged forests that formed the coal shales of Kentucky and Ohio.

Annularia is the genus and refers to the leaves or whorl of the jointed-stemmed plant, Calamites, a close relative of modern horsetails. Neuropteris is an extinct genus of fern that reproduced from seed as opposed to sporophyte reproduction of most modern ferns. As with most seed ferns, Neurodontopteridaceae grew in tree form.

Lepidodendron is a genus of extinct, primitive, vascular, tree-like plants most closely related to gill worts and club mosses, that grew up to 98ft (30 m) and had trunks 3.2ft (1 m) in diameter. It is from the Late Carboniferous, Pennsylvanian aged forests that formed the coal shales of Eastern Kentucky and Ohio.

It comes with an acrylic display stand.