Description

Walchia sp.
Pennsylvanian
Atrasado Formation
Tinajas Member
Kinney Brick Quarry, NM USA.

179mm branch on 211mm slab.

Plant.  Carboniferous.

Walchia is an extinct genus of conifer that lived from the Late Pennsylvanian to at least the end of the Permian with reports of it having survived into the Triassic.  It is known from sites all over the world (North America, Europe, North Africa, China, Thailand, and the Korean Peninsula).

Very nice blade (frond) with multiple leaflets. Great display piece from a site not always open to collecting.