| P number: | P521481 |
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| Caption: | Rock specimen of flaggy limestone with plant fossil. Raw Camps quarry, Mid Calder, Linlithgowshire. |
| Description: | The specimen is a dark muddy limestone with a large plant fossil preserved on the bedding plane. British Geological Survey Petrology Collection sample number EMC 2569. The rock itself is an oil-bearing shale from the West Lothian oil field. The fossil is the equivalent of a modern-day pine cone. It has a very delicate symmetrical structure with a central stem surrounded by a finely pitted main body, with fragile feather-like branches around the margins. The host rock contains a number of smaller fossil plant fragments scattered over the bedding surface. The Lepidostrobus cone is a Carboniferous plant fossil. Lepidostrobus is a form genera for the reproductive organs of Lycopods, small herbaceous plants with ground-hugging stems from which erect branches rise at intervals with the sporophylls clustered in the Lepidostrobus cones. Other lycopod form genera include lepidodendron for stems and trunks and Lepidophylloides for leaves. |
| Date taken: | Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT 2003 |
| Photographer: | Unknown |
| Copyright statement: | NERC |
| Orientation: | Landscape |
| Size: | 170.58 KB; 1000 x 775 pixels; 85 x 66 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 205 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
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| Categories: | Unsorted Images |
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