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Extremely rare museum quality tree fern Megaphyton 3 leaf petiolar leaf scars !!

$ 38.01

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    Specimen:
    Extremely rare, museum quality, big specimen of
    Megaphyton sp.
    Artis 1825
    rare arborescent "
    tree fern" trunk showing 3 frond scars,
    Locality:
    Poland, GZW Upper Silesia Coal Basin
    Stratigraphy:
    Upper Carboniferous - Westphalian B
    Age:
    ca 305 Mya
    Matrix dimensions:
    ca 8,7 x 7,5 x 2,5 cm
    Megaphyton - ( tree fern stem)
    shows vertical row of the petiolar scars after big leaves / fronds. Megaphyton which grew to 10m in height, and is associated with leaves of the true spore ferns genus
    Pecopteris
    and other extinct tree ferns.
    The group "true arborescent tree ferns" includes foliage that have been shown to produce spores on the underside of their leaves. Some plants in this group were ground dwelling and others may have been epiphytes. Though most of the plants are treated as tree ferns and have been found to be related to an extand order of ferns called the Marattiales. Today the Marattiales consist of two genera Angiopteris and Marattia.
    Systematic:
    Division:
    Trachaeophyta (Pteropsida)
    Class:
    Marattiopsida
    Order:
    Marattiales
    Family:
    Marattioids
    Genus:
    Megaphyton sp.
    Artis 1825