Lepidodendron stumps, Fossil Grove, Glasgow
Eleven fossil lycopsid tree stumps preserved in place in a Carboniferous forest floor.
325 to 320 Ma · Fossil Grove, Victoria Park, Glasgow, Scotland · CTF-PAL-000003
About this record
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.
Connections
Reconstructed as
- Carboniferous forest soundscape, speculativeT5 Speculative325 to 320 Ma · link T5
The soundscape imagines the forest these stumps grew in.
Chronos Terra soundscape notes.