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Description: | A fossil Lycopod plant identified as Stigmaria ficoides. The specimen is a fragment of a root from a Lepidodendron tree with circular impressions on its surface. The specimen has circlular structures around 4mm diameter within depressions across the whole surface. The fragment has been broken flat at each end revealing a fine grained, dark grey ironstone matrix. On the broken edges, a lighter grey circular structure (18mm x 15mm) is present. The structure runs throught the fossil appearing at both ends. AR/CB
A fossil Lycopod plant root identified as a Stigmaria ficoides, which is about 310 million years old | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Sandwell Museums | Rights holder: | Sandwell Museums | Subjects: | Geology Palaeontology | Temporal: | Carboniferous - Pennsylvanian - Moscovian | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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