Fossil Asterophyllites, branch of a Calamites sp. tree from the Carboniferous Period

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Fossil Asterophyllites, branch of a Calamites sp. tree from the Carboniferous Period (300 - 359 million years ago). Calamites was a relative of modern horsetails (Equisetum sp.).

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