Cordaites sp.
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Specimen #936
Taxon: Cordaites sp.
Locality: McCoy, Eagle County, CO
Age: Pennsylvanian Period
Rock unit: Minturn Formation
Collector: W. Itano
This is a 4.5 cm fragment of a leaf. It is most likely Cordaites, a tree with long, strap-like leaves having parallel veins. Cordaites belongs to an extinct group of plants, the Cordaitales, which were distantly related to conifers.
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