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Diversity in a Carboniferous Swamp Forest
Most of the species in today’s diverse forests belong to the same group: seed plants. The forests of about 300 million years ago were diverse in a different way. Carboniferous species were more evenly spread across four major groups: seed plants, ferns, horsetails, and lycopsids.
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- Title: Tree fern (leaf)
- Location: Carbondale Formation, Grundy Co., Illinois
- Physical Dimensions: L: 36 cm W: 13 cm H: 3.2
- Type: Fossil
- Rights: This image was obtained from the Smithsonian Institution. The image or its contents may be protected by international copyright laws. http://www.si.edu/termsofuse
- External Link: View this object record in the Smithsonian Institution Collections Search Center
- USNM Catalog Number(s): PAL444624
- Scientific Name: <i>Pecopteris strongii</i>
- Photo Credit: Chip Clark, Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History
- Historic Period: Lived 309 million years ago
- Geologic Age: Paleozoic - Pennsylvanian - Middle - Moscovian
- Field: Paleobiology
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