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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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    (Schult. f.) Farw. Sigillaria angustifolia (Pursh) Raf. Sigillaria biflora (Walter) Raf. Sigillaria canaliculata (Willd.) Raf. Sigillaria elliptica Raf....
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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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