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Rare fossil plant extinct lycopod Lepidophloios cone and young leafy twig !!!

$ 40.65

Availability: 50 in stock
  • pre dinosaur fossil plant: Carboniferous Coal age
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  • Condition: New
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    Description

    My specimens are genuine and will be delivered with a Certificate of authenticity, age and origin and scientific works copy described this species !
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    Specimen:
    Beautiful, detailed specimen of
    rare fossil plant extinct lycopod
    Lepidophloios larcinus
    Sternberg
    1820
    fossil cone and young leafy twig !!!
    Locality:
    All detailed and accurate data will be provided with the specimen
    Stratigraphy:
    Upper Carboniferous  – Pennsylvanian -  Namurian B
    Age:
    ca. 320 Mya
    Matrix dimensions:
    ca. 13,0 x 11,0 x 2,0 cm ( scale-bar - white square on pictures is 1,0 x 1,0 cm )
    Description:
    Description:
    Rarer lycopod
    two sided fossil of young leafy branch of
    Lepidophloios larcinus
    Sternberg
    1820
    and it's rare fossil cone !
    The genus
    Lepidophloios
    appears to have been established by Sternberg at a time when our knowledge of Carboniferous plants was based, for the most part, upon merely superficial characters and not upon the anatomical structure of the plants themselves. The two genera, Lepidodendron and Lepidophloios, though long known to hold close affinities, are clearly separated by well-marked characters.  In Lepidophloios the leaf-cushions are rhomboidal (as in L. laricinum) or elongated-truncate (as in L. scoticum), and the leaf-scar is situated at the extremity of the cushion, having three punctiform cicatricules as in Lepidodendron. The cones are borne on specially modified branches and are arranged in spirals (Halonia). These young branches grew for the propagation period from the main trunk with cone on top. After reaching maturity by the cones, twigs with the cones  fall off on the ground. The genus Lepidophloios appears to have been established by Sternberg at a time when our knowledge of Carboniferous plants was based, for the most part, upon merely superficial characters and not upon the anatomical structure of the plants themselves. The two genera, Lepidodendron and Lepidophloios, though long known to hold close affinities, are clearly separated by well-marked characters.  In Lepidophloios the leaf-cushions are rhomboidal (as in L. laricinum) or elongated-truncate (as in L. scoticum), and the leaf-scar is situated at the extremity of the cushion, having three punctiform cicatricules as in Lepidodendron. The cones are borne on specially modified branches and are arranged in spirals (Halonia).
    Systematic:
    Division:
    Tracheophyta (Lycoposida)
    Class:
    Lycopodinae
    Order:
    Lycophodiales
    Family:
    Lepidodendraceae
    Genus:
    Lepidophloios / Halonia
    Species:
    Lepidophloios larcinus
    Sternberg 1820