A genus of fossil trees of the Devonian and Carboniferous ages, having the exterior marked with scars, mostly in quincunx order, produced by the separation of the leafstalks.
A Pennsylvanian fossil club moss. It was tall (100-feet high), branching, with slender leaves and had distinctive diamond shaped leaf scars along the trunk.
A genus of early tree-like plants (lycophytes) that grew over 30m in height and 2 m in diameter. Lycophytes were the dominant plants in the Devonian and Carboniferous forests. Their remains became partly decomposed to form coal, gas and crude oil.
These fossils are of the common Lycopod, which flourished during the Carboniferous period. It was a giant plant, and the various parts have been given different biological names because they are fossilized separately.
Lepidodendron (also known as the "scale tree") was a giant club moss (a tree-like plant) whose long trunk had bark with a diamond-shaped pattern (the scars of old, dead branches that fell off). This ancient lycopod was over 130 ft (40 m) tall; the trunk was over 6 ft (1.8 m) in diameter. Lepidodendron lived in swampy areas during the Carboniferous Period (about 360 to 286 million years ago). It has spirally-arranged leaves that ended in cones. By the time the dinosaurs lived, the giant club mosses had died out and were replaced by smaller club mosses.
Lepidodendron (also known as the "Scale tree") is an extinct genus of primitive, vascular, arborescent (tree-like) plant related to the Lycopsids (club mosses). They are called Giant club mosses, since they sometimes reached heights of over 30 m, and the trunks were often over 1 m in diameter. They thrived during the Carboniferous period.
