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Paleozoic:
One of the earliest female paleontologists, Hedwig Kniker, left several beautiful specimens from the classic Mazon Creek site in Illinois.
Mesozoic:
Interesting Cretaceous silicified ('petrified') specimen bored by marine bivalves.
Cenozoic:
Beautiful leaves from the Gulf region Tertiary deposits. In addition to large palm roots.
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The sample here is Neuropteris, the leaf of a seed fern. The seed ferns are now extinct but their foliage resembles modern ferns. This label is of a specimen collected by Kniker in 1918.
Slab of petrified wood
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