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Description: | The specimen is a piece of the trunk of a Club Moss tree that grew in a coal forest. The regular pattern of markings are scars where grass-like leaves were attached directly to the trunk. In Sigillaria these leaf scars are arranged in columns. Club Mosses grew in a different way to present day trees and reached a height of more than 30 metres in 10 to15 years. They were among the most common plants in the tropical rain forests of the Carboniferous period. Fossils like these are often mistaken for the remains of animals such as snakes. | 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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