Extinct Seed Plants (NHMW-Geo 2021/0020/0001)3D Model
3D scan of a plate with extinct seed plant of the species Pterophyllum jaegeri. The fossil seed plants, or Bennettitales, were found in Lunz in Lower Austria and are about 220 million years old. Back then, the area was covered with flourishing swamp forests, while the reefs in the Tethys oceans were dying. Their wealth, diversity and outstanding state of preservation are unique! The plate was purchased by the museum in 1887.
The plate scanned here is a piece of a much larger object. The other part of the plate is Nr. 20 of the NHM Top 100 and can be found in Hall 8 of the NHM Vienna.
Specimen: Bennettitales Pterophyllum jaegeri (Brongniart, 1828)
Inventory number: NHMW-Geo 2021/0020/0001
Collection: Natural History Museum Vienna, Geology & Palaeontology Dept., Mesozoic Coll. (curator: Alexander Lukeneder)
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Scanned and edited by Anna Haider & Viola Winkler (NHMW)
Scanner: Artec Leo. Infrastructure funded by the FFG.
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