Annularia Fern Fossil

Source: http://www.kgs.ku.edu/Publications/ancient/f05_plants.html

Age - Carboniferious (360 MYA)
Origin - Mazon Creek, Illinois

Annularia is a plant fossil from the Carboniferous period. They are the leaf whorls of an extinct horsetail. These horsetails, grew to a haight of 30 feet in a tree-like form. They were indicative of a humid, web habitat such as a lake shore. Calamites itself is the name originally given to a stem section, but now applies to the entire plant.

Size: 3 5/8" x 2 1/4"

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