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Description: | The regular pattern of diamond-shaped marks on this Club Moss trunk fragment are the leaf cushions of scale leaves that covered the trunk. 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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