Lepidodendron Foliage Fossil Replica
$29.00
Lepidodendron 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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Description
Lepidodendron foliage fossil replica slab measures 8.7 inches. The Lepidodendron is a museum-quality polyurethane resin cast. 1:1 scale. Made in USA.
Vegetation of the carboniferous Pennsylvanian swamps of Manning Canyon, Utah. Lepidodendron also known as the scale trees, is an extinct genus of early, vascular, tree-like plants related to the isoetes (quillworts) and lycopsids (club mosses).
They 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.
They thrived during the Carboniferous Period and were found until the Late Triassic, about 205 Ma) before going extinct. Sometimes erroneously called “giant club mosses”, the genus was actually more closely related to modern quillworts than to modern club mosses.
Lepidodendron Foliage Fossil species were comparable in size to modern trees. The plants had tapering trunks as wide as 6 ft 7 in. at their base that rose to about 100 feet arising from an underground system of horizontally spreading branches that were covered with many rootlets.
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| Weight | 4 lbs |
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| Dimensions | 8.7 in |
| Lepidodendron Facts: | Kingdom: Plantae |