Sigillaria
Sigillaria is a lycopod fossil of the late Carboniferous and early Permian.[1] They were typical coal forest trees similar to the Lepidodendron. These swamp forest trees grew to 50 meters. They were anchored by an extensive network of branching underground roots.[2]
It was a lycopod, an early land plant. This was one of the trees which made up the Carboniferous coal-forests.
It had thin grasslike leaves that grew on the stem. The stem of the plant was green. Sigillaria reproduced with spores. It went extinct about 300 million years ago.
Sigillaria Media
Artistieke impressie van de Sigillaria
Leaf scars are shown between the vertical sections of a Sigillaria where the leaves used to be attached
Fossil of Sigillaria trigona, on display at National Museum (Prague)
Sigillaria lycopod fossil, Joggins, Nova Scotia, Canada
Sigillaria on display at State Museum of Pennsylvania, from Sharon, Mercer County, Pennsylvania
Sigillaria (bark) on display at State Museum of Pennsylvania, from Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania
Replica of Sigillaria sp. at the University of A Coruña
In situ Lycopsid that is probably Sigillaria from the Pennsylvanian Joggins Formation in Nova Scotia
A close-up of the leaf scars on a Sigillaria notata
