Large Mazon Creek Fern Pecopteris scheuzeri

Name: Pecopteris scheuzeri, which is related to P. miltoni

Age: Pennsylvanian

Size: mm (25.4mm=1 inch): Concretion length: 90 mm (3 1/2 inches)

Location: Braidwood, Illinois, Mazon Creek

Code: DP324

Price: $25.00 - Sold

Mazon creek is one of the world's Lagerstatten site noted for exquisite fossil preservation, even soft tissue. The fossils are usually in ironstone nodules that were formed due to coverage in mud and the action of bacteria. Over 400 species from at least 130 genera of flora have been identified from Mazon Creek nodules

Collectors will recognize this Pectopteris scheuzeri seed fern (sometimes called fossil feathers because of obvious resemblance) as both large and superb.

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