Milleria thomsoni Dawson

Description

Fossil plant, Milleria thomsoni, from the Middle Devonian of Cromarty, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland, part of the Hugh Miller Collection

Museum reference

G.1859.33.2102

Collection

Fossils

Scientific name(s)

species: Milleria thomsoni Dawson

Specimen details

Specimen form: Fossil

Materials

Calcite, Limestone

Physical description

Fossil wood in a limestone concretion; Rectangular block of calcareous siltsone with a simple branching plant axis preserved as a two dimensional compression fossil

Collection place(s)

Cromarty, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland, Northern Europe

Associations

Collector: Miller, Hugh, 1802 - 1856
Hugh Miller Collection

References

Figured by Miller, H. 1841 "Old Red Sandstone" as "vegetable impressions"

Figured by Miller, H. 1857. "Testimony of the Rocks" as "fucoids", fig. 119

Mentioned by Lang, W. H. 1925. "Contributions to the study of the Old Red Sandstone Flora of Scotland. I. On plant-remains from the fish beds of Cromarty. II. On a sporangium-bearing branch-system from the Stromness Beds". Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 54, 263