5.6" Fossil Fern (Lygenopteris) Plate - Pottsville Formation, Alabama

This is a beautiful 2.6" fossil fern (Lygenopteris) frond, from the Pottsville Formation, Alabama. This beautiful specimen is so well preserved, it still shows amazing detail in each leaflet.

Lygenopteris is a genus of seed fern that contains a number of extinct species of fern that reproduced from seed as opposed to sporophyte reproduction of most modern ferns.

Comes with acrylic stand.
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DETAILS
SPECIES
Lygenopteris hoeninghausi
LOCATION
Cumberland Plateau, Alabama
FORMATION
Pottsville Formation
SIZE
2.6", 5.2 x 3.1" Rock
CATEGORY
ITEM
#111199
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