FOSSIL TROPICAL PLANT (SEED FERN) - 300 million years old - Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire
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(SEED FERN)
(positive and negative)
300 million years old
Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire
A lovely little fossil of a seed fern preserved as the positive and negative (also known as the part and counter-part). The fossil is preserved in brick-red shale and was collected from the tips of a Forest of Dean coal mine.
300 million years old
Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire
A lovely little fossil of a seed fern preserved as the positive and negative (also known as the part and counter-part). The fossil is preserved in brick-red shale and was collected from the tips of a Forest of Dean coal mine.
In the Carboniferous period Britain was on the equator and covered by 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.
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Size: 10 x 5 x 1.5 centimetres
Weight: 122 grams
Weight: 122 grams
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