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Chaloneria cormosa is a woody lycopsid found in
the Upper Pennsylvanian Steubenville, Ohio, coal ball locality.
This smallish lycopsid differed from the larger arborescent forms by having a single unbranched stem that grades from vegetative basally to fertile near the apex. In this photo you can see the outer portions of both a vegetative and a fertile stem.. On the right is a vegetative stem, with large bulbous leaf bases and prominent air channels. On the left is the fertile stem. The string-like structures hanging off of the leaf bases on the left are broken sporangial walls. The spores have already dispersed. |
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