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Carboniferous Flora From North Euramerica Continent 2


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With your permission, Bruno, I would like to add this post for all who follow this topic (which I hope will run for years!).

During the Carboniferous, Europe and N. America were conjoined as the northern supercontinent "Pangea", which straddled the equator. The following link is to a site showing the arrangement of the land masses at that time; one look and you will see why Europe and N. America share the same fossils from this time.

http://www.paleoportal.org/media/boilerpla...ap_12_image.jpg

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Congradulations, those specimens are fantastic. The detail is breath taking. I won't even tell you about the "marginal" specimens I've collected so far. I'm still paying my dues I guess.

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Beautiful barks. :)

-Dave

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Nice specimens! I thought I remember that there was an estimated 100+ different species of Lepidostrobus. Does that sound right? Regards, Chris

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Those are beautiful, love all the detail that they have. It wouldn't do for me to live over there, I would have tile made out of some and do all my walls with them. Every time I see them I look at my walls and imagine them all over it. Thanks for sharing.

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Those are beautiful, love all the detail that they have. It wouldn't do for me to live over there, I would have tile made out of some and do all my walls with them. Every time I see them I look at my walls and imagine them all over it. Thanks for sharing.

Momma ,you' re come back , I'm glad to see you here

best regards

bruno

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Nice specimens! I thought I remember that there was an estimated 100+ different species of Lepidostrobus. Does that sound right? Regards, Chris

Hi Plantguy

100+ lepidostrobus ! ,personally I found 3 different STROBUS ,Lepidodendron BARKS , many described species, but surely

in my area with 20 TRUE species , many variations depending on their maturity and their position on trunk

best regards

bruno

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Bruno, thanks for the confirmation. The diversity of those plants and your samples of them are equally amazing. Continued good hunting! Regards, Chris

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