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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: - Neuropteris -
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 04:04:14 -0400 (EDT)
- Neuropteris - given the length of the necessary excavation and the hiring of actors and actresses, this damn thing took all night. sorry it's slightly large but it's worth it. otherwise i wouldn't have taken all day. http://www.asondheim.org/neuropteris.mp4 and then the dvd drive started acting up and i had to set a restore point with a vengeance i went back three weeks. then poser gave out and i had to reinstall. now do i make a registry cleanup? of course. 'It is particularly unfortunate that this, the earliest known Neuropteris of Nova Scotian Pennsylvanian beds, is represented only by minute frag- ments which preclude an adequate knowledge of the species. Superficially, at least, there is a marked resemblance to Mariopteris pygmaea D. White, which occurs at a much younger horizon. The ultimate pinnae are apparently short, with relatively broad, lineate rachis (0.34 mm.) and alternative, triangular-ovate, inflated, coriaceous, neuropteroid pinnules 3 to 5 mm. long by 2 to 2.5 mm. wide at base, over half of midrib relatively thick, and three or four pairs of short laterals that are divided once or twice, of which the lower reach the borders at a right angle; terminal pinnule, triangular-ovate, 6 to 8 mm. long, assymetrical, with small, obtuse, rotund, basal lobe on one side. The strongly arched or inflated pinnules are medially grooved dorsally in lower half of pinnule and depressed marginally along a narrow border.' - from Carboniferous Rocks and Fossil Floras of Northern Nova Scotia, W.A. Bell, Ottawa, 1944. It is remarkable that the Nova Scotian flora is almost identical to the Pennsylvanian flora I collected as a child; I found and labeled over 700 specimens, including numerous Neuropteris. http://www.asondheim.org/neuropterisfossil.jpg