. A dictionary of the fossils of Pennsylvania and neighboring states named in the reports and catalogues of the survey ... Paleontology. .V Neuropteris {Cydopteris) germari. (Goeppart, Syst Xnr /. JBfe^ ^v^ Fol. Foss.) Lesq. Geol. Pa. Vol. 2, page 856, plate 5, fig. 5. Only a small specimen of this remarkable species was found at the Salem an- thracite mine, near Pottsville, Pa. The form of the leaves is as peculiar as is their mode of attachment to the stem (rachis), which is thick and striated nar- (]yolSjrfj^Hs-^e7;Tn^;^ ^ //. ^: rowly. Its leaves some- what suggest Neuropteris desor
. A dictionary of the fossils of Pennsylvania and neighboring states named in the reports and catalogues of the survey ... Paleontology. .V Neuropteris {Cydopteris) germari. (Goeppart, Syst Xnr /. JBfe^ ^v^ Fol. Foss.) Lesq. Geol. Pa. Vol. 2, page 856, plate 5, fig. 5. Only a small specimen of this remarkable species was found at the Salem an- thracite mine, near Pottsville, Pa. The form of the leaves is as peculiar as is their mode of attachment to the stem (rachis), which is thick and striated nar- (]yolSjrfj^Hs-^e7;Tn^;^ ^ //. ^: rowly. Its leaves some- what suggest Neuropteris desoriL In Coal Flora, 1880, P, p. 113, Lesquereux identifies it with the European Filicites crisp us^ and with Adiantites germari ; changes its name to Neurop- teris germari; and figures (plate 18, figs. 3, 4, 5) specimens from the anthracite Salem vein; from Mazon creek nodules, 111.; and from a subconglomerate sandstone (Chester group) in Mercer Co., Ill—X///and XL Neuropteris gibbosa. (iV. undans, Lesq.) Lesq. Geol. ..„ ^ . .^, , r*..^ f Pa. 1858, p. ^^^ '1 858, plate 5, fig. 3; a fine species some- what related to N. Uexu- ^^^ osa^ but with thinner, er nerves, without middle nerve; M#'^ opposite leaf- lets, etc., iruit holes (?) at base of some leaflets.—Anthra- cite Salem vein, Pottsville. Note—Lesq. has identified his N, undans with it for reasons given in his Coal Flora, Rt. P, 1850, p. 84, where he says it was found in ''Upper Anthra-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Lesley, J. P. (J. Peter), 1819-1903; Pennsylvania. Board of Commissioners for the Second Geological Survey. Harrisburg, Board of Commissioners for the Geological Survey
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