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Description: | The specimen shows grass-like leaves of Asterophyllites that were attached to a joint in the stem of Calamites. The arrangement is typical of horsetail plants. Carboniferous varieties included trees that grew up to 30m tall and had trunks up to 1m in diameter. They were common plants in coal forests and typically formed thickets along the edges of rivers and lakes. They reproduced from spores that grew in cases (sporangia) arranged in cones attached to the tips of stems. | 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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