Telangium affine Lindley and Hutton

Description

Fossil plant, Telangium affine, from the Lower Carboniferous of Burdiehouse, Midlothian, Scotland, part of the Hugh Miller Collection

Museum reference

G.1859.33.3224

Collection

Fossils

Scientific name(s)

species: Telangium affine Lindley and Hutton

Specimen details

Specimen form: Fossil

Materials

Grey limestone

Physical description

Block of grey limestone with plant fossil compressions on the face

Collection place(s)

Burdiehouse, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, Northern Europe

Associations

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

References

Specimen used in the restoration of the frontispiece of Miller, H. 1857. "Testimony of the Rocks"

Mentioned as Sphenopteris elegans by Bunbury, C. J. F. 1852. Description of a peculiar fossil fern from the Sydney coal field, Cape Breton. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, 8, p. 35

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 102, fig. 1