Plantae - Plant

Description

Fossil plant, dichotomising plant, from the Middle Devonian of Skail, Orkney, Scotland, part of the Hugh Miller Collection

Museum reference

G.1859.33.2111

Collection

Fossils

Scientific name(s)

kingdom: Plantae - Plant

Specimen details

Specimen form: Fossil

Materials

Black flagstone

Physical description

Rectangular block of dark flagstone with a compression plant fossil on the face

Collection place(s)

Skaill, Eday, Orkney, Scotland, Northern Europe

Associations

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

References

Figured as "Fucoid" by Miller, H. 1857. "Testimony of the Rocks", p. 387, fig. 118