Plant Fossils
Plant Fossils
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Annularia Calamites Cross-Section Replica
$31.00Prehistoric plants of North America fossils of this genus have been discovered in the Permian strata of Russia and in the Carboniferous (around 360 to 300 million years ago) strata…
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Brachiopod Conglomerate Panel
$272.00Articulate brachiopods have toothed hinges and simple opening and closing muscles, while inarticulate brachiopods have untoothed hinges and a more complex system of muscles used to keep the two valves…
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Calamites Tree Trunk Fossil
$24.00The trunks of Calamites had a distinctive segmented, bamboo-like appearance and vertical ribbing. The branches, leaves and cones were all borne in whorls. The leaves were needle-shaped, with up to…
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Calamites Tree Trunk Replica
$60.00The trunks of Calamites had a distinctive segmented, bamboo-like appearance and vertical ribbing. The branches, leaves and cones were all borne in whorls. The leaves were needle-shaped, with up to…
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Crinoid 4 Specimen Slab
$50.00At some stage in their life, most crinoids have a stem used to attach themselves to the substrate, but many live attached only as juveniles and become free swimming as…
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Crinoid Dizygocrinus Hisforcrinus Plaque
$50.00Dizygocrinus is recognized from both the late Osagean and Meramecian on both the eastern and western margins of the Illinois Basin. Dizygocrinus is first recognized virtually simultaneously on both the…
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Crinoid Ethelocriunus magister Replica
$28.00The large crowns with complex, branching, pinnulated arms and thick, ornamented plates suggests that Ethelocrinus magister preferred warm, shallow water environments in which food supplies of organic matter suspended in…
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Crinoid Holdfast Bulb Replica
$30.00Holdfasts vary in shape and form depending on both the species and the substrate type. The holdfasts of organisms that live in muddy substrates often have complex tangles of root-like…
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Crinoid Parisangulocrinus Replica
$25.00The calyx is truncated cone-shaped as in Rhadinocrinus. However, the arms are dichotomously forked up to four times. The anal sac is long, slender, and cob-like.
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Crinoid Saccocoma petinata Panel
$16.00Originating in the 150 million year old Jurassic Solnhofen Lithographic Limestone deposits near Bavaria, Germany, these pelagic (free-floating) comatulid crinoids are known as Saccocoma pectinata.
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Crinoid Scyphocrinus Plaque
$25.00Adult crinoids Scyphocrinus are characterized by having the mouth located on the upper surface. This is surrounded by feeding arms, and is linked to a U-shaped gut, with the anus…
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Crinoid Scytalocrinus Plaque
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Crinoid Sea Floor Replica
$50.00Those crinoids which, in their adult form, are attached to the sea bottom by a stalk are commonly called sea lilies, while the unstalked forms are called feather stars or…
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Cycad Frond Plant Replica
$22.00They typically grow very slowly and live very long, with some specimens known to be as much as 1,000 years old. Because of their superficial resemblance, they are sometimes mistaken…
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Cycad Tree Stump Replica
$199.00They usually have pinnate leaves. The individual plants are either all male or all female (dioecious). Cycads vary in size from having trunks only a few centimeters to several meters…
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Ginkgo Leaf Eocene Replica
$25.00Ginkgos or Maidenhair trees are large trees, normally reaching a height of 66–115 feet, with some specimens in China being over 160 feet. The tree has an angular crown and…
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Lepidodendron Bark Replica
$43.00As the trees aged, the wood produced by the unifacial cambium decreased towards the top of the plant such that terminal twigs resembled young Lepidodendron stems.
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Lepidodendron Bark Replica 14
$58.00They were part of the coal forest flora. They sometimes reached heights of over 100 feet, and the trunks were often over 3.3 feet in diameter.
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Lepidodendron Foliage Fossil Replica
$29.00Lepidodendron is one of the more common plant fossils found in Pennsylvanian (Late Carboniferous) age rocks. They are closely related to other extinct lycopsid genera.
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Seed Fern Foliage Fossil
$22.00Their discovery attracted considerable attention at the time, as the pteridosperms were the first extinct group of vascular plants to be identified solely from the fossil record.
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Seed Fern Foliage Replica
$56.00The earliest fossil evidence for plants of this type is the genus Elkinsia of the late Devonian age. They flourished particularly during the Carboniferous and Permian periods.
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Sigillaria Lycopod Bark Replica
$17.00The old leaf bases expanded as the trunk grew in width, and left a diamond-shaped pattern, which is evident in fossils. These leaf scars were arranged in vertical rows.
