Sphenopteris bifida Lindley and Hutton

Description

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

Museum reference

G.1859.33.3222

Collection

Fossils

Scientific name(s)

species: Sphenopteris bifida 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 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