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View full screenFossil plant, Sphenopteris tenerrimum, from the Lower Carboniferous of Burdiehouse, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, part of the Hugh Miller Collection
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species: Sphenopteris tenerrimum 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 Kidston, R. 1883. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 5, vol. 11, p. 117, plate 9, fig. 12
Figured by Kidston, R. 1883. Transactions of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, vol. 16, plate 3, fig. 12
Figured by Crookall, R. 1969. "Fossil plants of the Carboniferous rocks of Great Britain". Vol. 2, Part 5, Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, plate 126, fig. 4