Tag: seed
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Mazon Monday #246: Stephanospermum konopeonus
This is Mazon Monday post #246. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. Seeds were relatively rare in the Pennsylvanian Period. Most plants, including the true ferns, reproduced via spores. The only plants that bore seeds were the medullosan pteridosperms, or seed ferns. The most common seed found in the Mazon Creek…
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Fossil Friday #88: Trigonocarpus seeds
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #88. Expect this to be a somewhat regular feature of the website. We will post any fossil pictures you send in to esconi.info@gmail.com. Please include a short description or story. Check the #FossilFriday Twitter hash tag for contributions from around the world! Back in Mazon Monday #67, we took…
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Mazon Monday #67: Trigonocarpus sp.
This is Mazon Monday post #67. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. Trigonocarpus sp. was described in 1825, by Alexandre Brongniart, who was a French chemist, mineralogist, geologist, paleontologist, and zoologist back in the early 1800’s. It is the seed part of an extinct order of plants called Medullosales. In the…
