Cooksonia sporangia Example of new species identified in 2004 from Bertie Lagerstatte
I found this fossil in 2005.... Today after a 5 yrs sitting in a drawer... I got confirmation of the identity by the ROM of this fossil from the Bertie Lagerstatte.... it is one of the rarer new species of Cooksonia Identified and published in 2004 by Edwards, Banks, Ciurca and Laub, Botanical Journal of the Lnnean Society, 2004, 146, 399-413 (see figure #19). The scale is in mm. Excerpt" The rare plant fossils are unusual in that they are preserved in fine grained , slightly argillaceous dolostones rather than clastic rocks... globular sporangia morphology close to C. hemisphaerica Lang." The scale in the photo is in mm.
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