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.

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.

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 an Alethopteris fern. There are also plants that may belong to the Asterophyllites genus.Period: Carboniferous;Location: Ruhr regionDimensions: approx. 10.5 x 8.5 x 1 cmDue to technical reasons colors in the picture may differ slightly 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. 11 x 10 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.

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. 4 x 1,5 cmColors in product photos may differ from those of the original specimen for technical reasons.

Positive and negative of a well-preserved leaf fossil from the well-known Dudley site.Its leaf structures are clearly visible.Age: Middle Upper Carboniferous; Locality: Dudley, Black Country, West Midlands, EnglandSize of fossil: 9 x 4 x 2,5 cmColors in product photos may differ slightly from those of the original specimen due to technical reasons.

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.

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.

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.