ntloux Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 I have a fossil fern (seed fern?) from Kentucky for which I have finally been able to acquire readable close ups of the leaf structure. Members of the Forum have previously been very generous with their advice; however the image was not sufficiently detailed in order to make more definitive suggestions. Various suggestions are that it is possibly a cyclopteris, a neuropteris ovata, or a macroneuropteris scheuchzeri specimen. However, the leaf structure appears to be more robust than images of these types of fossils. With the closeups hopefully a more definitive answer can be found. Suggestions are welcome. The 1st image is of the entire specimen including a neuropteris leaf (disregard the cyclopteris label). The fossil of interest is in the upper right. The remaining images are closeups. Thank you in advance for any suggestions. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Kmiecik Posted March 18 Share Posted March 18 (edited) We had determined in a previous post that this is most probably Laveineopteris rarinervis. I thought it was Neuropteris ovata, but @paleoflor corrected my ID. He knows flora quite well, so I defer to his ID of this specimen. Edited March 19 by Mark Kmiecik fix typo 1 Mark. Fossil hunting is easy -- they don't run away when you shoot at them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ntloux Posted March 19 Author Share Posted March 19 Mark, Thanks for all of the information that you have provided to me. Nick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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