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Various Fossilised Plants Division
Variuos Fossilised Plants Categories
Lepidodendron
Division:
Lycopodiophyta
Class:
Isoetopsida
Order:
Lepidodendrales
Family:
Lepidodendraceae
Genus: Lepidodendron
Lepidodendron (also known as
the "Scale tree") is an
extinct
genus of
primitive, vascular, arborescent (tree-like)
plant related
to the
Lycopsids (club
mosses). They sometimes reached heights of over 30 m, and the trunks
were often over 1 m in diameter, and thrived during the
Carboniferous
period. Sometimes called "giant club mosses", this is actually not correct as
they are actually closer to
quillworts
than to club mosses.
Lepidodendron
had tall, thick trunks that rarely branched and were topped with a crown of
bifurcating branches bearing clusters of
leaves. These
leaves were long and narrow, similar to large blades of grass, and were
spirally-arranged. The vascular system was a siphonostele with exarch xylem
maturation.
The closely packed diamond-shaped leaf
scars left on the trunk and stems as the plant grew provide some of the most
interesting and common
fossils in
Carboniferous
shales and
accompanying
coal deposits.
These fossils look much like tire tracks or
alligator
skin.
Image Code F685 |
Catalogue No.: F685
Description: Lepidodendron obovatum Sternberg. Lycopod. Pella Beds.
Pennsylvanian Period (=Upper Carboniferous Period).
Pella, Iowa.
Lepidodendron
(also known as the "Scale tree") is an
extinct
genus of
primitive, vascular, arborescent (tree-like)
plant related
to the
Lycopsids (club
mosses). It was part of the
coal forest
flora. They sometimes reached heights of over 30 metres (100 ft), and the
trunks were often over 1 m (3.3 ft) in diameter, and thrived during the
Carboniferous
period.
Size: 490 x 310mm. |
Image Code F2955 |
Catalogue No.: F2955
Description: Lepidodendron lanceolatum Lesquereux.
Upper Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian). The Cones. Pella Beds, Pella, Iowa,
USA.
Size: 470 x 360mm. |
Image Code F3749 |
Catalogue No.: F3749
Description:
Petrified Root of Lyepod tree, Lepidodendron stigmaria. Haskell Co., Oklahoma, USA. Early Pennsylvanian
Period? 300 MYA. 2 pieces.
Size: 280 X 110mm. |
Image Code F3751 |
Catalogue No.: F3751
Description:
Petrified Root of Lyepod tree, Lepidodendron stigmaria. Haskell Co., Oklahoma, USA. Early Pennsylvanian
Period? 300 MYA.
Size: 460 X 110mm. |
Image Code F3753 |
Catalogue No.: F3753
Description:
Petrified Root of Lyepod tree, Lepidodendron stigmaria. Haskell Co., Oklahoma, USA. Early Pennsylvanian
Period? 300 MYA.
Size: 260 X 90mm. |
Image Code F3754
Image Code F3754a |
Catalogue No.: F3754
Description:
Lepidodendron Cone.
Size: 69 X 88mm. |
Image Code F3755
Image Code F3755a |
Catalogue No.: F3755
Description:
Lepidodendron Cone.
Size: 85 X 66mm. |
Image Code F3756 |
Catalogue No.: F3756
Description:
Lepidodendron Cone.
Size: 64 X 79mm. |
Image Code F3757
Image Code F3757a |
Catalogue No.: F3757
Description:
Lepidodendron Cone.
Size: 139 X 82mm. |
Image Code F3809 |
Catalogue No.: F3809
Description:
Fossil "Scale tree",
Lepidodendron stigmaria. Haskell County, Oklahoma, USA. Early Pennsylvanian Epoch. 300 MYA?
Size: 260 X 95mm. |
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Ferns
A fern is any one of a group of about 20,000
species of
plants
classified in the phylum or division Pteridophyta, also known as
Filicophyta. The group is also referred to as Polypodiophyta, or
Polypodiopsida when treated as a subdivision of
tracheophyta
(vascular plants). The study of ferns and other pteridophytes is called
pteridology, and one who studies ferns and other pteridophytes is called a
pteridologist. The term "pteridophyte"
has traditionally been used to describe all seedless
vascular plants,
making it synonymous with "ferns and
fern allies".
This can be confusing since members of the fern phylum Pteridophyta are also
sometimes referred to as pteridophytes.
Image Code F3929 |
Catalogue No.: F3929
Description:
Fern/ Palm
Fossil. Pecopteris sp.
Pennsylvanian Period.
Magon Creek Formation. Braidwood, Illinois, USA.
Size: 450 X 415mm. |
Image Code F3933 |
Catalogue No.: F3933
Description:
”Fish Bone” Fern Fossil.
Size: 61 X 113mm. |
Image Code F3934 |
Catalogue No.: F3934
Description:
”Fish Bone” Fern Fossil.
Size: 115 X 85mm. |
Image Code F3935 |
Catalogue No.: F3935
Description:
”Fish Bone” Fern Fossil.
Size: 110 X 85mm. |
Image Code F3936 |
Catalogue No.: F3936
Description:
”Fish Bone” Fern Fossil.
Size: 157 X 112mm. |
Image Code F3937 |
Catalogue No.: F3937
Description:
”Fish Bone” Fern Fossil.
Size: 151 X 94mm. |
Image Code F3938 |
Catalogue No.: F3938
Description:
”Fish Bone” Fern Fossil.
Size: 100 X 42mm. |
Image Code F3939 |
Catalogue No.: F3939
Description:
”Fish Bone” Fern Fossil.
Size: 91 X 80mm. |
Image Code F4248 |
Catalogue No.: F4248
Description: Fern.
Size: 94 X 57mm. |
Image Code F4250 |
Catalogue No.: F4250
Description: Fern Fossil. Pennsylvanian. Mazon
Creek, Braidwood, Illinois.
Size: 81 X 38mm. |
Image Code F4251 |
Catalogue No.: F4251
Description: Fish Bone Fern. Mazon Creek, Illinois.
Size: 51 X 48mm. |
Image Code F4252 |
Catalogue No.: F4252
Description: Fern.
Size: 78 X 32mm. |
Image Code F4253 |
Catalogue No.: F4253
Description:
Fern Fossil. Pecopteris sp. Pennsylvanian Carbondale Pit 11, Braidwood, Illinois.
Size: 78 X 45mm. |
Image Code F4254 |
Catalogue No.: F4254
Description: Fern.
Size: 129 X 39mm. |
Image Code F4257 |
Catalogue No.: F4257
Description: Fern.
Size: 119 X 51mm. |
Image Code F4258 |
Catalogue No.: F4258
Description: Fern.
Size: 121 X 42mm. |
Image Code F4260 |
Catalogue No.: F4260
Description:
Fern Fossil. Pecopteris sp.
Pennsylvanian. Mazon Creek, Fm Braidwood, Illinois.
Size: 82 X 37mm. |
Image Code F4261 |
Catalogue No.: F4261
Description:
Fern Fossil. Pennsylvanian. Mazon
Creek, Fm Braidwood, Illinois.
Size: 58 X 22mm. |
Image Code F4259 |
Catalogue No.: F4259
Description: Tongue Fern, Nenaptenis Violetta. Pennsylvanian.
Mazon Creek, Morris, Illinois.
Size: 72 X 43mm. |
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Other Fossilised Plants
Image Code F3738 |
Catalogue No.: F3738
Description:
Various Plant Fossils. 8 pieces.
Size: 91 X 55mm. |
Image Code F3732 |
Catalogue No.: F3732
Description:
Neozephionites sp.
Mississippian Period. Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA.
Size: 58 X 150mm. |
Image Code F3739 |
Catalogue No.: F3739
Description:
Fossil seeds inside selenite (pond weed), Potamogeton sp.
Pleistocene Period.
Tule Formation. Briscoe County, Texas, USA. 3 pieces.
Potamogeton,
commonly
called pondweed (not all pondweeds are Potamongetons), is a
genus of
aquatic,
mostly freshwater, plants of the family
Potamogetonaceae.
Plants are mostly perennial and typically produce
rhizomes which
are the common over-wintering form. Many species also produced specialised
overwintering buds called
turions which
may be borne on the rhizome, on the stem or on
stolons from
the rhizome. The leaves are alternate, which contrasts with the closely related
genus
Groenlandia
where the leaves are opposite or whorled.
Size: 169 X 41mm. |
Image Code F3854 |
Catalogue No.: F3854
Description: Fossil Calamites. Pennsylvanian. Braidwood, Illinois, USA. Calamites
is a genus of
extinct
arborescent (tree-like) horsetails to which the modern
horsetails
(genus
Equisetum)
are closely related. Unlike their
herbaceous
modern cousins, these plants were medium-sized trees, growing to heights of more
than 30 meters (100 feet). They were components of the understories of
coal swamps of
the
Carboniferous
period.
Size: 78 X 56mm. |
Image Code F3930 |
Catalogue No.: F3930
Description: Fossil Plant Imprints Formation.
Goscoyne Region, Western Australia.
Size: 330 X 260mm. |
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