Carboniferous

Age: Lower Carboniferous, Mississippian, Chadium;Locality: Salthill Quarry, Clitheroe, Ribble Valley, Lancashire, EnglandSize: 2.5 x 2.5 x 2.3 cmColors on photos may differ slightly from the original due to technical reasons.

A beautiful specimen from the Carboniferous Period, found at a site that is no longer accessible.Age: Lower Carboniferous, Westphal DLocality: Zwickau-Cainsdorf, Saxony, GermanySize: approx. 10.5 x 14 x 1 cmDue to technical limitations, colors of the original specimen may differ slightly from those in product photos.

Age: Carboniferous, Westfalian D;Locality: Halde Reden, SaarregionSize: ca. 27 x 16 x 3,5 cmThe color on pictures can differ from the original for technical reasons.          

Beautiful fossil of a Dunbarella papyracea.Age: Lower Upper Carboniferous; Locality: Siersdorf-Aldenhoven, district of Düren (before 1972 district of Jülich), NRW, GermanySize fossil: approx. 3 cm; matrix: 12 x 5 x 1 cmColors on photos may differ slightly from those of the original specimen due to technical reasons.

This is a typical bark of the sigillaria tree. The leaf scars are clearly visible in the parallel rows.Very nice large piece from the United States. Rare, as the site is exhausted.Age: Upper Carboniferous;Locality: Pella, Marion County, Iowa, USASize: approx. 37 x 18 cmColors in product photos may differ from those of the original specimen for technical reasons.

Crinoid specimen from Crawfordville.Age: Lower Carboniferous, Mississippian; Locality: Crawfordsville, Montgomery Co., Indiana, USASize: approx. 10,5 x 8,5 x 4,5 cmColors on photos may differ slightly from the original due to technical reasons.

Several goniatites on the front and back of the Ruhr carboniferous plate.Age: Carboniferous, Kulm III alpha;Locality: Aprath near Wülfrath, district of Mettmann, North Rhine-Westphalia, GermanySize: 12 x 8 cm; Fossil: Ø 3.5 cmColors on photos may differ slightly from the original due to technical reasons.

Very well preserved and rare specimen!Age: Upper Carboniferous, Lower Ural Formation, Kasimov;Locality: Voskressensk, oblast Moscow, RussiaSize: 1 cm Colors on the pictures may differ from the colors of the original due to technical reasons.

Fragments of the frond and a seed capsule are preserved (see arrow).A rare fossilized fern, Lagenopteris bermudensiformis, from the former Chemnitz-Glösa highway construction site in Saxony. The site is no longer active. Upper Lower Carboniferous, approximately 330 million years old. The Carboniferous Period (359–298 million years ago) is also known as the Age of Ferns. The flora in the vast coal swamps consisted of horsetails, ferns, scale trees, cycads, and clubmosses. Over millions of years, these plants gave rise to today’s coal deposits.Age: Upper Lower CarboniferousLocality: Glösa-Draisdorf, Chemnitz, Saxony, GermanySize: approx. 9,5 x 18 x 2 cmColors on product photos may differ from those of the original specimen for technical reasons.

Megasporophyll cones.Part of the lycopsid Lepidocarpon.Age: Carboniferous, Pennsylvanian, Coal measures, Llewellyn Fomation;Locality: Wanamie, Luzerne Country, Pennsylvania, USASize of the plate: ca. 5,8 x 4 x 0,5 cmThe colors in the picture may differ from the original due to technical reasons.

A beautiful slab featuring iconic representatives of the Carboniferous period. It includes a Lepidodendron sp. and Lepidostrobus. There are also plants that may belong to the Asterophyllites genus.Period: Carboniferous;Location: Ruhr regionDimensions: approx. 25 x 19 x 4 cmDue to technical reasons colors in the picture may differ slightly from the original.

Age: Carboniferous;Place of discovery: Kamp-Lintfort, GermanySize: approx. 29 x 14 x  3 cmThe photo may differ slightly in color from the original.

Lepidodendron is a genus of primitive lycopodian from the Carboniferous period. It was one of the largest plants of its time and grew up to 40 meters tall, with a trunk diameter of up to 2 metres.Here you see a part of the well-preserved cone.Age: Upper Carboniferous, Westfal A;;Locality: Gelsenkirchen, GermanySize: approx. 10,5 x 6,5 x 2 cm Cone: 4-5 x 1,5 cmThe photo may differ slightly in color from the original piece due to technical reasons.

Age: Upper CarboniferousLocality: Saarland, GermanySize: approx. 13 x 9,5 x 3 cmLepidodendron is a genus of "scale trees" from the Carboniferous period. One of the largest plants of its time, it grew up to 40 meters high with a trunk diameter of up to 2 meters. Certain cones of the scale tree family bear the genus name Lepidostrobus. Here you can see a particularly beautifully preserved specimen.The photo may differ slightly in color from the original piece due to technical reasons.

Age: Lower Carboniferous, Mississippian (Tournai), Mulraugh Fm;Locality: Crawfordsville, Indiana, USASize: 4.5-5 cmThe specimen is supplied with an old and a new label.Colors on product photos may differ slightly from those of the original specimen due to technical reasons.

Beautiful crinoids from a classic fossil site!Age: Lower Carboniferous, Lower Mississippian, Borden Group;Location: Crawfordsville, Indiana, USASize: Matrix: 7.8 cm x 4.5 cm x 2 cm; Crinoid: 5.5 cmThe colours on the pictures may slightly differ from the original specimen.

Age: Lower Carboniferous, Mississippian, Sanders Group, Ramp Creek Limestone.Locality: Crawfordsville, Indiana, USASize fossil: approx. 1,5 x 3,5 cm Matrix: 6 cm x 2 cm x 1 cmColours on the photo may slightly differ from the original specimen.

Very beautifully preserved conularia!This is an extinct group of cnidarians that are known as fossils ranging up until the Late Triassic. They can be recognized by their cylindrical hollow external structures, which were shaped like pyramids and consisted of numerous lamellae.Age: Upper Carboniferous, Pennsylvanian, Finis Shale Formation;Locality: Jack County, Texas, USASize: approx. 2 x 0,5 cmColors in product photos may differ from those of the original specimen for technical reasons.Our pictures are for reference only. You will receive a specimen of equivalent quality with your purchase.

Age: Carboniferous, Famenne;Locality: Kornelimünster (Wahlheim), Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, GermanySize of the larger piece: approx. 10 x 9 x 0.5 cmColors on photos may differ slightly from the original due to technical reasons.

Beautifully preserved seeds of the extinct plant Cordaites. In the cool forests of the Russian-Siberian platform there was a great variety of these seed-bearing plants. Some of them preferred swamp-like conditions and grew like mangroves. This group has some relationship to modern conifers and may represent some of the earliest cone-bearing plants on earth.It's worth a look with a magnifying glass!Age: Upper Carboniferous, Westphalian A, Kohlscheid strata;Locality: Pit Anna, Alsdorf, Aachener coalfield, North Rhine-Westphalia, GermanySize: approx. 11 x 7 cmColors on product photos may differ from those of the original specimen due to technical reasons.

This is a beautiful, rare, and well-preserved fossil leaf found in a geode at the famous Dudley site in England. You can clearly see the delicate leaf structures.Delivery includes the complete geode, featuring both the positive and negative face.Age: Late Carboniferous;Locality: Dudley, Black Country, West Midlands, United KingdomSize:  9.1 x 4 x 2 cmDue to technical limitations, colours on the screen may differ slightly from the actual specimen.

A special feature of this piece is the preservation of a curled juvenile frond at the edge of the plate.Beautiful fern, some leaves are almost three-dimensionally preserved.Age: Carboniferous; Locality: Maybach pit, Friedrichsthal-Maybach, Saarland, GermanyTotal size: 13 x 23 x 3.5 cm; juvenile shoot: 1 cmColors on product photos may differ from those of the original specimen due to technical reasons.

Trunk bark impression of a sigillaria, lycopod family; Period: Carboniferous;Location: Ruhr Region, GermanyDimensions: approx. 13,5 x 10,5 x 2 cmThe photo may differ slightly in color from the original.

Age: Upper Carboniferous; Locality: Lambusart, Fleurus commune, Hainaut province, BelgiumPrice applies to the entire lot.Colors on product photos may differ slightly from those of the original specimen due to technical reasons.