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    Sigillaria is a genus of extinct, spore-bearing, arborescent lycophyte, known from the Carboniferous and Permian periods. It is related to the more famous...
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  • ancient Roman culture, sigillaria were pottery or wax figurines given as traditional gifts during the Saturnalia. Sigillaria as a proper noun was also...
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    usually gag gifts or small figurines made of wax or pottery known as sigillaria. The poet Catullus called it "the best of days". Saturnalia was the Roman...
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    the leaves of Lepidodendron species are indistinguishable from those of Sigillaria species. The decurrent leaves formed a cylindrical shell around branches...
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    lycopsid trees. Some of the characteristic plants of the coal forests were: Sigillaria Lepidodendron Calamites pteridosperms Genera recorded in Great Britain...
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    Ancient in situ lycopsid, probably Sigillaria, with attached stigmarian roots. Specimen is from the Joggins Formation (Pennsylvanian), Cumberland Basin...
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    significantly. During the Carboniferous, tree-like plants (such as Lepidodendron, Sigillaria, and other extinct genera of the order Lepidodendrales) formed huge forests...
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    the underground rooting structures of arborescent lycophytes such as Sigillaria and Lepidodendron under the order Lepidodendrales. The Paleozoic swamps...
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    Fossil lycopsid, probably Sigillaria, from Joggins, with attached stigmarian roots...
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    dichotomizing growth pattern, or a crown of dichotomising branches. Some Sigillaria species are suggested to not have branched at all. During the later stages...
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  • related to modern club moss, with arborescent forms named Lepidophloios, Sigillaria and Lepidodendron, and herbaceous forms called Lycopodites and Cormophyton;...
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  • (with its fruit cone called Lepidostrobus), Halonia, Lepidophloios and Sigillaria. The roots of several of these forms are known as Stigmaria. The fronds...
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    Lepidodendron (with its cone called Lepidostrobus), Anabathra, Lepidophloios and Sigillaria. The roots of several of these forms are known as Stigmaria. Unlike present-day...
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    victimis).(1.7.31)(p 146) The figurines that were exchanged as gifts (sigillaria) during the Saturnalia may have represented token substitutes.(1.10.24)...
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    (Schult. f.) Farw. Sigillaria angustifolia (Pursh) Raf. Sigillaria biflora (Walter) Raf. Sigillaria canaliculata (Willd.) Raf. Sigillaria elliptica Raf....
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    from the Middle Devonian of Wisconsin. Fossil in situ lycopsid, probably Sigillaria, with attached stigmarian roots. Base of a fossil lycopsid showing connection...
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    perhaps his observations on the structure of the treelike lycopodiopsid, Sigillaria, an extinct plant related to the living club mosses, and his researches...
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    Joggins site include members of the calamites family, lepidodendron, sigillaria, ferns, various early amphibian species, numerous fish species (including...
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    swamp-loving lycopod trees of the Carboniferous, such as Lepidodendron and Sigillaria, were progressively replaced in the continental interior by the more advanced...
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  • Diana and Juno Regina in the Circus Flaminius, and for the Tempestates; Sigillaria, the last day of the Saturnalia, devoted to gift-giving 25: Dies Natalis...
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    funeral processions. The closing days of the Saturnalia were known as sigillaria, on account of the custom of making, towards the end of the festival,...
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  • Diana and Juno Regina in the Circus Flaminius, and for the Tempestates; Sigillaria, the last day of the Saturnalia, devoted to gift-giving 24 IX Kal. Ian...
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    [citation needed] The extinct arboreal plants of the genera Lepidodendron and Sigillaria were the first to have distinct aeration structures that rendered these...
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    Convallaria racemosa L. Polygonastrum racemosum (L.) Moench Sigillaria ciliata (Desf.) Raf. Sigillaria multiflora Raf. Smilacina ciliata Desf. Smilacina flexicaulis...
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  • Lycophytes and ferns Genus Species Notes Images Sigillaria S. brardii A tree-like lycophyte. Asterophyllites A. equisetiformis, A. longiformis Equisetid...
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  • Carboniferous Eogyrinus Diplovertebron Meganeuron Eryops Lepidodendron Sigillaria Permian Seymouria Limnoscelis Varanosaurus Ophiacodon Sphenacodon Araeoscelis...
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  • This was described by George Graf zu Munster in 1839 as a species of Sigillaria. Corda later assigned the species to the new genus Pleuromeya. The sandstone...
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    Bifolium G.Gaertn., B.Mey. & Schreb. Sciophila Wibel. Monophyllon Delarbre Sigillaria Raf. Styrandra Raf. Asteranthemum Kunth Jocaste Kunth Medora Kunth Maia...
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    Slickensides on a fault plane, south wall. Lens cap 5.8 cm wide. Upright Sigillaria in dipping sandstone and shale beds of the north wall. A so-called "Polystrate...
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    Beiträge aus dem nördlichen Thüringer Walde, 1884 Über eine Buntsandstein-Sigillaria und deren nächste Verwandte. Jahrbuch der Königlich Preussischen geologischen...
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