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Very rare, coal age fossil plant fern Sphyropteris obliqua & fern Mariopteris !

$ 8.44

Availability: 100 in stock
  • Condition: New
  • Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
  • Refund will be given as: Money back or replacement (buyer's choice)
  • Modified Item: No
  • Restocking Fee: No
  • Item must be returned within: 30 Days
  • All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
  • Mazon Creek like: burmite

    Description

    My genuine specimens will be delivered with a "Certificate of authenticity, age and origin" and scientific papers allowing plant identification !
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    Specimen:
    V
    ery rare, coal age fossil plant, herbaceous fern:
    Sphyropteris ( Sphenopteris) obliqua
    MARRAT &
    seed fern
    Mariopteris sp.
    Locality:
    All detailed data will be provided with the specimen
    Stratigraphy:
    Upper Carboniferous, Middle Pennsylvanian / Westphalian B
    Age:
    ca. 315 Mya,
    Matrix dimensions:
    ca. 10,0 x 5,5 x 1,0 cm ( white square on last picture is 1,0 x 1,0 cm )
    Description:
    Big
    plate with very rare, very nice , detailed coal age fossil plant - nice fern:
    Sphyropteris ( Sphenopteris) obliqua
    MARRAT
    Seed ferns (Pteridosperms)
    were group of seed plants from the Carboniferous and Permian periods (about 360 to 250 million years ago).
    Some, such as Medullosa ( Lonchopteris, Neuropteris, Alethopteris etc.) grew as upright, unbranched woody trunks topped with a crown of large fernlike fronds;
    others, such as Mariopterids, were woody vines. All had fernlike foliage; however, they reproduced by seeds, with ovules and pollen organs attached to the fronds.
    Gamete - producing structures in the seeds were surrounded by a hard inner integument and a fleshy outer layer.
    These features have led some authorities to speculate that these seeds may have been dispersed by animals. Some seeds were large. (
    Pachytesta gigantea
    , a seed of Medullosa, grew up to 7 cm long.) Pollen organs of seed ferns were also large and complex and were commonly made up of many pollen sacs fused into a large structure.
    Systematic:
    Kingdom
    :        Chlorobiota Plantae
    Family:
    Sphenopteridae
    Order:
    Sphyropteris
    Species:
    Sphyropteris ( Sphenopteris) obliqua
    MARRAT