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Description: | The specimen is a fragment of the trunk of a Club Moss. Club Mosses could grow as tall as 40 metres, and looked like tall trees, with a crown of dense leafy branches at the very top of the trunk. Modern quillworts eventually evolved from some of the smaller clubmosses that survived. Fossils of Lepidodendron have a distinctive diamond-shaped pattern that is made up of leaf cushions, where leaves were shed from the trunk and branches. It is a common fossil in local rocks from the Coal Measures. | 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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