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Description: | The specimen is part of a branch from the crown (top) of a Club Moss. Grass-like leaves would have joined directly on to the branch. The regular pattern of ribs form as the bark splits as the branch grows. Club Mosses 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. It was plants like these that eventually formed the thick layers of coal found in the UK today. | 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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