Sigillaria facts for kids
Sigillaria is a lycopod fossil of the late Carboniferous and early Permian. 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.
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.
Images for kids
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Fossil of Sigillaria trigona, on display at National Museum (Prague)
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Sigillaria on display at State Museum of Pennsylvania, from Sharon, Mercer County, Pennsylvania
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Sigillaria (bark) on display at State Museum of Pennsylvania, from Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania
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Replica of Sigillaria sp. in a laboratory of practices of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of A Coruña
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In situ Lycopsid that is probably Sigillaria from the Pennsylvanian Joggins Formation in Nova Scotia
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Sigillaria Artist's Impression.
See also
In Spanish: Sigillaria para niños
