FOSSIL TROPICAL PLANT - 300 million years old - Pembrokeshire, Wales
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FOSSIL TROPICAL PLANT
300 million years old
(Carboniferous period)
Near Monkstone Beach, Tenby, Pembrokeshire
Fossil of a tropical fern from the Coal Measures. From the South Wales Coal Field. A beautiful little fossil. The gloss is natural. It has not been varnished.
| THE COAL MEASURES FORESTS In the Carboniferous period Britain was situated near the equator and covered by dense tropical rain forest with giant trees and strange fern-like plants. Much of this vegetation became layers of coal, but some plants left impressions in mud which hardened into stone. Flowering plants had not yet evolved and the dominant vegetation was giant clubmosses, horsetails and seed ferns growing on the banks of the coal-forming swamps. Animal life at the time was dominated by insects which included dragonflies with a two-metre wingspan. |
Size: approx. 9 x 4 x 1.5 centimetres
Weight: 96 grams
Weight: 96 grams
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