| P number: | P521075 |
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| Caption: | A fossil specimen of Sigillaria sp. A fossil plant. (Plantae.) At sewage pipe on shore near H.W.M. south-west of West Pans, Musselburgh, south side of east-west fault, Midlothian, Scotland. |
| Description: | Sigillaria a fossil plant, is a member of the Lycopod group of vascular, spore-bearing plants that includes Lepidodendron. This specimen was found at near a sewage pipe on the shore near H.W.M. south-west of West Pans, Musselburgh, on the south side of an east-west fault. British Geological Survey Biostratigraphy Collection number GSE 8792. It has squarish leaf scars arranged in vertical rows. This specimen is from the Upper Carboniferous, a period when the first real forests developed in tropical swamps and deltas. Trees were not as we know them today, but were mainly composed of clubmosses and horsetails and the earliest seed-bearing plants called gymnosperms. |
| Date taken: | Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT 2003 |
| Photographer: | Unknown |
| Copyright statement: | NERC |
| Orientation: | Landscape |
| Size: | 166.87 KB; 1000 x 665 pixels; 85 x 56 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 176 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
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| Categories: | Unsorted Images |
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