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Plants from the Dinantian of Foulden, Berwickshire, Scotland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2011

Andrew C. Scott  and
Brigitte Meyer-Berthaud
Andrew C. Scott
Affiliation:
Geology Department, Chelsea College (University of London), 552 Kings Road, London SW10 0UA, England.
Brigitte Meyer-Berthaud
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Paléobotanique, L.A. 327 CNRS, Université des Sciences de Techniques du Languedoc, Montpellier 34060, France.
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Abstract

Anatomically preserved plants are recorded from calcareous nodules and include Lepidodendron calamopsoides Long which demonstrate for the first time the presence of anisotomous branching, in addition to the normal isotomous branching and details of the stele and the cortex seen in longitudinal section. The nodules also contain Setispora subpaleocristatus (Alvin) Spinner and Lagenicula crassiaculeata Zerndt megaspores. There is an abundant compression flora. Compressions and petrifactions of Tristichia ovensi Long may not represent the same plant and may not be connected to Stamnostoma huttonense Long. We suggest that the compressions of T. ovensi were of a pteridospermous plant with unlaminated fronds bearing small uncupulate seeds and lateral clusters of microsporangiate organs of a new type.

Keywords

Carboniferousgymnospermlycopodmegasporepalaeobotanypalaeoecologypreservationsphenopsidstratigraphy
Type
Research Article
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Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 76 , Issue 1 , 1985 , pp. 13 - 20
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1985

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