Here is a very detailed plant fossil concretion with a tree fern of the species Odontopteris aequalis from Mazon Creek. In the concretion is also a fossil spore pod (Sporangium / Strobilus) wich is not closer identified. | |||
Location: | Mazon Creek, Braidwood, Illinois , USA | ||
Size of concretion : | about 80 x 57 mm | ||
Age: | Upper Carboniferous, Pennsylvanian , Carbondale Fm. (about 300 Ma) |