Sphenopteris crassum Lindley and Hutton

Description

Fossil plant, Sphenopteris crassum, from the Lower Carboniferous of Burdiehouse, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, part of the Hugh Miller Collection

Museum reference

G.1859.33.3227

Collection

Fossils

Scientific name(s)

species: Sphenopteris crassum Lindley and Hutton

Specimen details

Specimen form: Fossil

Materials

Grey limestone

Physical description

Very fine black plant compression fossil on the face of a block of grey limestone

Collection place(s)

Burdiehouse, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, Northern Europe

Associations

Hugh Miller Collection

References

Figured as Sphenopteris crassa by Kidston, R. 1883. Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh, vol. 7, p. 235, plate 5, fig. 2

Figured by Kidston, R. 1883. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 5, vol. 11, p. 117, plate 4, fig. 2

Figured as Sphenopteridium crassum 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, p. 168, plate 34, fig. 1