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Description: | The specimen is part of a branch from the crown (top) of a Club Moss tree. The regular pattern of oval markings are scars where grass-like leaves were attached directly to the branch. In Sigillaria these leaf scars are arranged in columns. These trees grew in a different way to present day trees and reached a height of more than 30 metres in 10 to 15 years. They were among the most common plants in the tropical rain forests of the Carboniferous period. | 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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