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.1859.33.2103

Collection

Fossils

Scientific name(s)

species: Milleria thomsoni Dawson

Specimen details

Specimen form: Fossil

Materials

Brown siltstone

Physical description

Small wafer of brown siltstone with plant impressions

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", plate 7, fig. 5

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, 262