Rare Fossil Trilobite Tracks Surmounted Etched Brass Stand

A beautiful display of Glossopteris seed fern leaves preserved within the Permian claystone (Illawarra Coal Measures, Upper Permian; Dunedoo area, New South Wales, Australia) now presented on THE FOSSIL STORE™ designed AES Brass stand series for spaces out there!

T he Glossopteris plate is excellent fossil preservation of the archetypical ‘sage’ shaped leaf embedded within the once soft matrix, creating a definitive display of leaves, and the reverse of this plate has a similarly beautiful display of Glossopteris Leaves exhibiting a lovely palette of colour.

 Plants are multicellular, photosynthetic eucaryotes. The oldest known land plant body fossils are Silurian in age. Fossil root traces of land plants are known back to the Ordovician era. The Devonian was the critical time interval during which land plants flourished, and Earth experienced its first “greening” of the land. The earliest land plants were small and simple and probably remained close to bodies of water. By the Late Devonian, land plants had evolved large, tree-sized bodies, and the first-ever forests appeared.

 Glossopteris is probably the most familiar fossil leaf...

THE FOSSIL STORE™ is a unique 1.3-meter-long Paradoxides acadoparadoxides trilobite plate of scientific significance. The one-piece fossil bed shale is now set into a rustic iron fra...

The latest edition to arrive at THE FOSSIL STORE™ is our famous and exquisite series of designed mount. The ammonites are truly exquisite specimens excavated from the high Anti-Atlas...

This fine and wonderful example of a Jurassic Chresmoda obscura; a Water Strider in the original Eichstatt Plattenkalk matrix or bedrock, dating to the Jurassic Period 145 million ye...

This incredible cluster of trilobites is found in it's original matrix and displays 4 complete or partial fossils throughout. This cluster comes with an acrylic stand so you can prop...

This is a large antique decorative ammonite on plinth. An English, fossilised geological ornamental fossil, dating to the Edwardian period and much, much earlier. Ammonites evolve...

Ptychopariida is a large, heterogeneous order of trilobite containing some of the most primitive species known. The earliest species occurred in the second half of the Lower Cambrian...

Trilobites, an early arthropod relative of spiders, horseshoe crabs, and scorpions, preserved in this level of detail only occurred as a result of very sudden underwater landslides c...