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View full screenFossil plant, Sphenopteris bifida, from the Lower Carboniferous of Burdiehouse, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, part of the Hugh Miller Collection
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species: Sphenopteris bifida Lindley and Hutton
Specimen form: Fossil
Very fine black plant compression fossil on the face of a block of grey limestone
Burdiehouse, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, Northern Europe
Hugh Miller Collection
Figured by Miller, H. 1857. "Testimony of the Rocks", fig. 129, p. 423
Figured by Kidston, R. 1924. Fossil plants of the Carboniferous rocks of Great Britain. Vol. 2, Part 5, Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, plate 103, figs. 1, 1a, 1b and 1c