Rare lizard fossil - reptile specimen - Fossilised animal - 15 cm
No. 82670167
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Amazing Rare Large Fossil Fern Mazon Creek, Illinois - Fossilised plant - Macroneuropteris sp on elegant display.
A siderite concretion that was split open to reveal an impression of a 3D fern.
Mazon Creek, Illinois, is a famous fossil locality containing plants and animals from 309 million years ago.
These fossils formed from a large flooding event that rapidly buried organisms, allowing for soft parts to be preserved.
This fern fossil was collected in the 1920s in Grundy County and it show really high quality.
Macroneuropteris is genus of seed ferns, extinct species of fern that reproduced from seed as opposed to sporophyte reproduction of most modern ferns.
Very difficult to find in this quality today.
Been in storage almost 100 years! From a long ago collection.
Concretion size: 10 x 5,5 cm
Elegant display included.
Overall size 16,5 cm high.
Macroneuropteris sp
Moscovian / Desmoinesian
Francis Creek Shale Member, United States of America, Illinois, Mazon Creek Region
Rare of this quality.
The elegance and perfection of nature at the service of science.
No. 82670167
No longer available
Amazing Rare Large Fossil Fern Mazon Creek, Illinois - Fossilised plant - Macroneuropteris sp on elegant display.
A siderite concretion that was split open to reveal an impression of a 3D fern.
Mazon Creek, Illinois, is a famous fossil locality containing plants and animals from 309 million years ago.
These fossils formed from a large flooding event that rapidly buried organisms, allowing for soft parts to be preserved.
This fern fossil was collected in the 1920s in Grundy County and it show really high quality.
Macroneuropteris is genus of seed ferns, extinct species of fern that reproduced from seed as opposed to sporophyte reproduction of most modern ferns.
Very difficult to find in this quality today.
Been in storage almost 100 years! From a long ago collection.
Concretion size: 10 x 5,5 cm
Elegant display included.
Overall size 16,5 cm high.
Macroneuropteris sp
Moscovian / Desmoinesian
Francis Creek Shale Member, United States of America, Illinois, Mazon Creek Region
Rare of this quality.
The elegance and perfection of nature at the service of science.
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