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Description: | The specimen is a cast of part of a Club Moss trunk that was made when it was buried in fine sand. The regular diamond shaped markings are the leaf cushions of scale leaves that were attached directly to its trunk are now well preserved in sandstone. 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. 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. | 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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