{"public_id":"CTF-PAL-000003","vault":"PAL","record_type":"fossil-specimen","record_type_label":"Fossil specimen","title":"Lepidodendron stumps, Fossil Grove, Glasgow","summary":"Eleven fossil lycopsid tree stumps preserved in place in a Carboniferous forest floor.","description":"Discovered in 1887 in Victoria Park, the stumps stand where they grew about 325 million years ago. They are casts of giant club-moss relatives, not true trees, with root systems of the Stigmaria form.","evidence_tier":"T1","verification_status":"expert","time":{"start":-325000000,"end":-320000000,"precision":"geological-stage","uncertainty_years":5000000,"dating_method":"biostratigraphy","geological_interval":"carboniferous","bands":["deep"]},"geometry_public":{"type":"point","coordinates":[-4.3215,55.8714]},"precision_class":"exact","sensitivity_class":"open","locality_public":"Fossil Grove, Victoria Park, Glasgow, Scotland","place":{"id":"fossil-grove-glasgow","name":"Fossil Grove","type":"fossil-locality"},"taxon":{"id":"lepidodendron","name":"Lepidodendron","common":"Scale tree","extant":false,"gbif_key":3184063},"rights":{"licence":"CC-BY-SA-4.0","licence_label":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","attribution":"Fossil Grove interpretive record (illustrative placeholder)","rights_holder":"Glasgow City Council","source_name":"Glasgow City Council","source_url":"https://www.glasgow.gov.uk/","retrieved_on":"2026-09-01","mode":"hosted","citation":"Chronos Terra Foundation (2026). Lepidodendron stumps, Fossil Grove. CTF-PAL-000003."},"media":[{"role":"access","path":"/media/CTF-PAL-000003.svg","media_type":"image/svg+xml","alt":"Line drawing of three fossil tree stumps on a forest floor.","processing_state":"edited"}],"links":[{"to":"CTF-PAL-000006","to_title":"Carboniferous forest soundscape, speculative","to_vault":"PAL","to_tier":"T5","type":"reconstruction-of","label":"Reconstructed as","tier":"T5","note":"The soundscape imagines the forest these stumps grew in.","citation":"Chronos Terra soundscape notes.","direction":"in","to_time":{"start":-325000000,"end":-320000000}}],"paleo":{"30":[-10.181,54.884],"75":[-9.262,51.63],"150":[3.705,32.59],"200":[8.144,27.606],"300":[7.776,21.796]},"registry":{"registered_on":"2026-09-01","version":"5f83e37ebc5e","url":"https://chronos-terra.example.org/records/CTF-PAL-000003","json_url":"https://chronos-terra.example.org/generated/records/CTF-PAL-000003.json"}}