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Description: | The specimen shows the stem of the Club Moss Lepidophloius in dark grey mudstone. It is covered with a regular pattern of rounded leaf cushions where leaves were fixed to it. The branches were developed in a crown at the top of a pole-like trunk. Club Mosses grew much faster than present day trees and could reach a height of 30 metres in 10 to 15 years. They were the dominant plants in the Carboniferous tropical rain forests. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | fossils natural world | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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