| P number: | P521053 |
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| Caption: | A fossil specimen of Lepidophloios scoticus Kidston. A fossil plant. (Plantae.) Railway cutting, left bank Water of Leith, between Boag's Mill & Kate's Mill, Colinton, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland. |
| Description: | Lepidophloios was a forest-forming lycopod. With transversely elongated leaf-bases arranged spirally around the stem it is a characteristic plant fossil of the Scottish Lower Carboniferous. British Geological Survey Biostratigraphy Collection number GSE 1275. Lycopods are herbaceous plants with stems that spread over the ground with branches rising vertically at intervals. The first forests were the great tropical coal forests of the swamps and deltas of the Carboniferous. This specimen is from the Carboniferous Calciferous Sandstone Series, the lower and thickest of two divisions of the Dinantian, and succeeds the earlier Upper Devonian rocks. It was found at the railway cutting, left bank of the Water of Leith, between Boag's Mill and Kate's Mill, Colinton. |
| Date taken: | Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT 2003 |
| Photographer: | Unknown |
| Copyright statement: | NERC |
| Orientation: | Portrait |
| Size: | 280.51 KB; 665 x 1000 pixels; 56 x 85 mm (print at 300 DPI); 176 x 265 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
| Average Rating: | Not yet rated |
| Categories: | Best of BGS Images/ Fossils |
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