2.2" Pennsylvanian Fossil Fern (Neuropteris) Plate - Alabama

This is a .8" fossil fern (Neuropteris), from the Pottsville Formation, Alabama. It is four pinna (leaflet) and the stem they attach to. This specimen is very well preserved with individual lobes visible. Venation is visible under magnification. There is also a section of a horsetail like plant, Calamites.

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