Paleobotanical story of a fossil plant : Sigillaria

Hello everyone, welcome to a new paleobotanical story that you have probably never heard before. For this first episode, we will travel through the late Carboniferous with some fossils that I have collected throughout my bachelor in Geosciences. These fossils will be a glimpse of an old tree-like lycophyte called Sigillaria (Lepidophytes). This short video is it story.

Bonjour à tous, bienvenue pour une nouvelle histoire paléobotanique que vous n'avez probablement jamais entendu auparavant. Pour ce premier épisode, nous allons voyager à travers le Carbonifère supérieur avec quelques fossiles que j'ai collecté tout au long de ma licence de géosciences. Ces fossiles vont être un aperçu d'une ancienne Lycophyte arborescente appelée Sigillaria (Lépidophytes). Cette petite vidéo est son histoire.

Sources and scientific papers and more informations :

-DiMichele, W.A., 2014. Wetland-Dryland Vegetational Dynamics in the Pennsylvanian Ice Age Tropics. International Journal of Plant Sciences 175, 123–164. https://doi.org/10.1086/675235

-Pfefferkorn, H.W., Wang, J., 2009. Stigmariopsis, Stigmaria asiatica, and the survival of the Sigillaria brardii-ichthyolepis group in the tropics of the late Pennsylvanian and Early Permian. Palaeoworld, Carboniferous and Permian Biota, Integrative Stratigraphy, Sedimentology, Palaeogeography, and Palaeoclimatology 18, 130–135. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palwor.2009...

--"PALEOBOTANY - The Biology and Evolution of Fossil Plants" Second Edition by THOMAS N. TAYLOR, EDITH L. TAYLOR et MICHAEL KRINGS (2009)

-D’Antonio, M.P., Boyce, C.K., Wang, J., 2021. Two new species of Sigillaria Brongniart from the Wuda Tuff (Asselian: Inner Mongolia, China) and their implications for lepidodendrid life history reconstruction. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, Wuda Tuff Flora: A Permian peat-forming T0 fossil plant assemblage from Wuda Coalfield, Inner Mongolia 294, 104203. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.20...

-Bao-lin, G.Y. and T., 1994. Anatomical Characteristics of the Stem of Sigillaria cf. brardii from Coal Balls in Guizhou Province, China. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology 36.

-D’Antonio, M.P., Boyce, C.K., Zhou, W.-M., Pfefferkorn, H.W., Wang, J., 2022. Primary tissues dominated ground-level trunk diameter in Sigillaria: evidence from the Wuda Tuff, Inner Mongolia. Journal of the Geological Society 179. https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2021-021

--"The Evolution of Plants" Second Edition by Kathy Willis et Jennifer McElwain (2013)
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-Carboniferous Forest Simulation
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-Dreamer by Hazy - Cinematic - Ambient - No Copyright Music
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