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NAME: Lepidodendron
sp.
GEOLOGIC AGE: Carboniferous (280 Million
Years Ago)
STRATIGRAPHIC DETAILS: Upper Silesia Basin Formation
LOCATION: Gilwice, Poland
Lepidodendron (also known as the "Scale tree") is an extinct genus of primitive,
vascular, arborescent (tree-like) plant related to the Lycopsids (club mosses).
They sometimes reached heights of over 30 m, and the trunks were often over 1 m
in diameter, and thrived during the Carboniferous period. Sometimes called
"giant club mosses", this is actually not correct as they are actually closer to
quillworts than to club mosses.
Lepidodendron had tall, thick trunks that rarely branched and were topped with a
crown of bifurcating branches bearing clusters of leaves. These leaves were long
and narrow, similar to large blades of grass, and were spirally-arranged. The
vascular system was a siphonostele with exarch xylem maturation.
The closely packed diamond-shaped leaf scars left on the trunk and stems as the
plant grew provide some of the most interesting and common fossils in
Carboniferous shales and accompanying coal deposits. These fossils look much
like tire tracks or alligator skin.
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NAME: Lepidodendron sp.
GEOLOGIC AGE: Carboniferous (280 Million Years Ago)
STRATIGRAPHIC DETAILS: Upper Silesia Basin Formation
LOCATION: Gilwice, Poland
Poland Lepidodendron Wood 2 $20.00
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NAME: Lepidodendron sp.
GEOLOGIC AGE: Carboniferous (280 Million Years Ago)
STRATIGRAPHIC DETAILS: Upper Silesia Basin Formation
LOCATION: Gilwice, Poland
Poland Lepidodendron Wood 5 $20.00
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NAME: Lepidodendron sp.
GEOLOGIC AGE: Carboniferous (280 Million Years Ago)
STRATIGRAPHIC DETAILS: Upper Silesia Basin Formation
LOCATION: Gilwice, Poland
Poland Lepidodendron Wood 9 $20.00
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NAME: Lepidodendron sp.
GEOLOGIC AGE: Carboniferous (280 Million Years Ago)
STRATIGRAPHIC DETAILS: Upper Silesia Basin Formation
LOCATION: Gilwice, Poland
Poland Lepidodendron Wood 10
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NAME: Lepidodendron sp.
GEOLOGIC AGE: Carboniferous (280 Million Years Ago)
STRATIGRAPHIC DETAILS: Upper Silesia Basin Formation
LOCATION: Gilwice, Poland
Poland Lepidodendron Wood 16
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NAME: Lepidodendron sp.
GEOLOGIC AGE: Carboniferous (280 Million Years Ago)
STRATIGRAPHIC DETAILS: Upper Silesia Basin Formation
LOCATION: Gilwice, Poland
Poland Lepidodendron Wood 17 $25.00
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NAME: Lepidodendron sp.
GEOLOGIC AGE: Carboniferous (280 Million Years Ago)
STRATIGRAPHIC DETAILS: Upper Silesia Basin Formation
LOCATION: Gilwice, Poland
Poland Lepidodendron Wood 19 $25.00
s (Click Photo to Enlarge)
NAME: Lepidodendron sp.
GEOLOGIC AGE: Carboniferous (280 Million Years Ago)
STRATIGRAPHIC DETAILS: Upper Silesia Basin Formation
LOCATION: Gilwice, Poland
Poland Lepidodendron Wood 25
