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Forest with clubmoss trees

Leaf scars of Sigillaria

Leaf cushions of Lepidodendron

Swamp with clubmoss trees (Sigillaria and Lepidodendron) and (seed)fern trees in the
Northern Zoo in Emmen (NL).
Right below the famous giant dragonfly
Meganeura
. (This diorama does not exist anymore).

Leaf scars of Sigillaria. Upper Carboniferous. Eygelshoven (NL). Width of the photo 4 cm.
The scars on the surface of the fossil trunks of
Sigillaria indicate the place where the leaves were
attached. In Sigillaria these scars are standing in
vertical rows, mostly separated by an ridge.

Leaf cushions of Lepidodendron. Upper
Carboniferous. Eygelshoven (NL).
Height of the photo 15 cm. The leaf cushions
on the surface of the fossil trunks of
Lepidodendron
indicate the place where the
leaves were attached. In Lepidodendron
these  cushions are arranged in oblique rows.

Branches of Lepidodendron

Leaflets of Lepidodendron

Spore cone of Lepidodendron

Branches of Lepidodendron.
Piesberg (Osnabrück, Germany)
.
Upper Carboniferous.
Height of the specimen 70 cm.

Branches with (scale-like) leaves of
Lepidodendron. Piesberg (Osnabrück,
Germany). Upper Carboniferous.
Height of the photo 21 cm.

Spore cone of Lepidodendron sp.
Ibbenbüren (Germany)
.
Upper Carboniferous.
Length of the cone 13 cm

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