NATURAL FERN LEAF FOSSIL SET IN SILVER PLATED PENDANT

SIZE 27X 20X 3 MM

WEIGHT IS TOTAL CARAT WEIGHT OF FOSSIL AND SETTING

UNIQUE NATURAL DESIGN

IMAGE IS OF EXACT PENDANT YOU WILL RECEIVE WITH SERVICE CHAIN

Fossil ferns are possibly the most abundant and recognizable of all fossil plants. Almost all of the so-called fossil ferns are actually seed ferns. Seed ferns are extinct plants (gymnosperms) which resembled true ferns, but reproduced by seeds rather than spores.  During the Pennsylvanian Period, billions of fern plants covered the forest floor and outlying swampy regions. Now fossilized, these ferns formed dense, fossil-rich layers dozens of feet thick and miles long. It is thought that the vast coal deposits of Pennsylvania and West Virginia were made up by millions and millions of fern plants buried in peat bogs and compressed into coal over many millenia. Plates of fossilized seed fern fronds are commonly displayed in major museums around the world.