Here is a very large fossil seed of a seed fern of the species Pachytesta gigantea from the classical site of Saint-Amédée in France.
The fossil seed itself measures about a remarkable 112 x 45 mm.
The Mine de Saint-Amédée was the last open-pit coal mine in the region, which ceased operations in the early 1990s.
The Mine has now been renaturalised. |
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| | Location: | Mine de Saint-Amédée, Monceau-les-Mines, Saône-et-Loire, France | |
| Size of plate: | about 117 x 80 mm |
| Age: | Upper Carboniferous, Pennsylvanian, Stephanian
(Kasimovian to Gzhelian about 303 Ma) |
