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Description: | Balgavies Quarry [right hand side of road from Forfar to Arbroath], 5 m E.of Forfar [about 200 yards past the Westerton crossroads on the east side of Rescobie Loch, looking towards Balgavies House], [Scotland] Lower Old Red Sandstone, [Lochkovian-Emsian], [Devonian (Lower)] Unlike the preceding specimens from this trip, this one does not have a clear identification on its label. *Parka decipiens* (Fleming) - a flat thallus-like plant covered by a surface layer of roundish hexagonal cells (?arthropod?). This thallus-like body was probably borne on an upright stipe. Spores without tri-radiate ridges were produced in the cavities within the thallus. *Prototaxites sp.* (Dawson) is an early plant 'experiment' which is generally regarded as bearing no relationship to any known group of plants. Formerly referred to as *cf. Nematophyton sp.* (Penhallow & Dawson).
Pb3348b on loan to BBC4 (31/1/2011-4/2/2011) for 'A History of Botany'. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | PLANTALGAGREEN : PLANTMISC : FOSSIL : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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