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The base of a tree trunk found by Kari Gibson south of Crail in Fife which looks like gymnospermous tree Cordaites.

The base of a tree trunk found by Kari Gibson south of Crail in Fife which looks like gymnospermous tree Cordaites.

 

The fossilised lower tree trunk with the upper parts of thick roots looks like it could be a descendant of the conifer called the gymnospermous tree Cordaites, from the appearance of its bark?

 

It was found very close to coal seams.

 

Links to the gymnospermous tree Cordaites:

www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/b-online/library/steur/engcor...

www.xs4all.nl/~steurh/engcord/ecordai.html

 

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Uploaded on July 26, 2010
Taken on July 25, 2010