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Specimen: Rare Carboniferous cone, fossil plant Bothrostrobus sp. Bothrodendron lycopod fossil cone !
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Stratigraphy: Lower Carboniferous, Mississipian - Serpukhovian - Namurian A
Age: ca. 330Mya
Matrix dimensions: ca 15,0 x 8,5 x 1,0 cm ( white square on pictures is 1,0 x 1,0 cm )
Description:
Very rare long Bothrodendron lycopod fossil cone. Bothrodendron cones called Bothrostrobus were simmilar to lepidodendron cones Lepidostrobus , but more elongated, and somewhat similar to the shape of Sigillaria cones called Sigillariostrobus. The Bothrodendron is the generic name for the arboresent lycopod like Lepidodendron or Lepidophloios. Specimens belonging to the lycopsid genus Bothrodendron are identified by distinctive shoots that have small superficial leaf scars. The species are distinguished on the basis of leaf scar shape and ornamentation on their stem surfaces. Of the two Pennsylvanian (upper Carboniferous) species, Bothrodendron minutifolium and Bothrodendron punctatum has been found several times with leafy shoots attached, but Bothrodendron punctatum has, until now, only been found as large leafless stems. The leafy specimen of Bothrodendron are relatively rare lycopsids.
Systematic :
Division: Tracheophyta (Lycoposida)
Class: Lycopodinae
Order: Lycophodiales
Family: Lepidodendraceae
Genus: Bothrostrobus
Species: Bothrostrobus sp.