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Small Fern Fossil From Mazon Creek
This is a Pecopteris fern fossil from Mazon Creek in Illinois. It's Pennsylvanian in age, or approximately 300 million years old and preserved in an ironstone nodule.
The Mazon creek deposits are world famous for their finely preserved fossils found within these ironstone nodules. Thousands if not millions of these nodules have been collected over the years from the spoil heaps of abandoned coal mines in the area.
The Mazon creek deposits are world famous for their finely preserved fossils found within these ironstone nodules. Thousands if not millions of these nodules have been collected over the years from the spoil heaps of abandoned coal mines in the area.
SPECIES
Pecopteris sp.
LOCATION
Mazon Creek, Illinois
FORMATION
Francis Creek Shale, Carbondale Formation
SIZE
1.3" long
CATEGORY
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#2149
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