V.—On the Fossil Flora of the Yorkshire Coal Field

Robert Kidston

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V.—On the Fossil Flora of the Yorkshire Coal Field

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For many years the Fossil Flora of the Yorkshire Coal Field has been engaging my attention, and among the species occurring in that district are many of considerable interest. This Coal Field supplied Artis with the specimens which he figured and described in his Antediluvian Phytology.

In 1888, at the Annual Meeting of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union, held at Malton, a committee was formed for the investigation of the Fossil Flora of Yorkshire, and since that date four Reports have been prepared and published based upon specimens submitted to me for examination by private collectors, and from collections contained in public museums. These Reports only contain lists of the species found, and the localities and horizons from which the specimens were derived, with any occasional short notes that might have been thought necessary. All detailed descriptions or critical remarks were deferred, and the present paper is the first of what I hope may be several, dealing more in detail with the Fossil Flora of the Yorkshire Coal Field.

Type: Research Article
Information: Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 38 , Issue 1 , 1897 , pp. 203 - 223

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^{page 203 note *} Antediluvian Phytology, illustrated by a collection of the Fossil Remains of Plants peculiar to the Coal Formations of Great Britain. By Edmund Tyrell Artis, F.S.A., F.G.S., London. In all the copies I have seen, the Introduction to the work is dated 1st September 1825, but the title-page bears the date 1838. This latter date is evidently that of a later issue, or second edition of the work, and may only be an alteration of the title-page of the copies subsequently issued. Each of the twenty-four plates contained in the volume bears the date of 1824. That the work was issued at least ten years before 1838 is evidenced by the fact that Brongniart quotes the book in his Prodrome d'une histoire des vegétaux fossiles, published in Paris in 1828. Probably, therefore, 1825 is the true date for the first issue of the Antediluvian Phytology.

^{page 203 note †} The Yorkshire Carboniferous Flora—

^{page 203 note ‡} The names of those to whom the Committee were indebted for assistance are given in these Reports. I am however, almost entirely indebted to Mr W. Hemingway for my fine series of Yorkshire specimens of Dactylotheca plumosa, Artis, sp., from which largely the present paper has been written.

^{page 204 note *} Memoirs of the Geological Survey of England and Wales. By Green, A. H., Russell, K., &c. London, 1878Google Scholar.

^{page 204 note †} See Kidston, , “On the Various Divisions of British Carboniferous Rocks as determined by their Fossil Flora,” Proc. Roy. Phys. Soc. Edin., vol. xii. p. 210, 1894Google Scholar.

^{page 204 note ‡} Catal. Palæoz. Plants, p. 128.

^{page 204 note §} Trans. York. Nat. Union, part xviii. p. 106, 1893.

^{page 205 note *} Végét. foss. du terr. houil., p. 87.

^{page 205 note †} Corda, Beitr. z. Flora d. Vorwelt, p. 91, pl. lvii. figs. 1–6, 1867.

^{page 205 note ‡} Sitzb. d. k. z. Akad. d. Wissensch., vol. lxxxviii. Abth. i. p. 633.

^{page 206 note *} Méin. Soc. Géol. de. Nord. Lille, 1882.

^{page 208 note *} Collected by Mr W. Hemingway. (Reg. No. 2094, &c.)

^{page 209 note *} Bull. Soc. Géol d. France, 3^e sér., vol. xii. p. 201.

^{page 209 note †} Hist. d. végét. foss., pls. cxxi., cxxii.

^{page 209 note ‡} Ibid., p. 349, pl. cxvi., fig. 6.

^{page 209 note §} See also Crépin, , Bull. Soc. Boy. Bot. Belgique, vol. xx. part ii. p. 25, 1881Google Scholar.

^{page 210 note *} Flore foss. Helv., Lief. i. p. 30, pls. xi. and xii. figs. 1–5, 1876.

^{page 211 note *} Syst. fil. foss., p. 375, pl. xxix. figs. 1–2.

^{page 211 note †} Loc. cit., pl. xxix. figs. 3–4.

^{page 211 note ‡} Traité d. paléont. vegét., vol. i. p. 518.

^{page 212 note *} Sterzel, , in Die Flora des Rothliegenden im I'lauensehen Grande bei Dresden (Abhandl. d, k. Sax. Gesell. d. Wissen. Math. Phys. Cl., vol. xix., Leipzig, 1893), p. 37Google Scholar, pl. v. figs. 1–6, describes another variety of Pec. dentata under the name of var. Saxonica.

^{page 212 note †} Page 104, pl. x. figs. 1–2, 1888.

^{page 213 note *} Loc. cit., p. 99, pl. ix. figs. 2–4.

^{page 213 note †} Jahrb. d. k. k. geol., Reichsanst, 1889, vol. xxxix. Heft i. p. 5Google Scholar.

^{page 213 note ‡} Palœont, vol. ix. p. 34, 1860Google Scholar.

^{page 213 note §} I have figured small specimens, to enable me to give a greater number of forms.

^{page 213 note ∥} The same horizon as that from which the type of Filicites plumosus was derived.

^{page 214 note *} Bassin houil. et perm, de Brive., p. 26, pl. ii. figs. 1–5.

^{page 214 note †} My thanks are due to Mr John Ward, Longton, for this specimen.

^{page 215 note *} Syst. fil. foss., p. 280, 1836.

^{page 215 note †} Die Carbon-Flora d. Schatz. Schichten, p. 78, 1885.

^{page 215 note ‡} Hist. d. végét. foss.

^{page 216 note *} Bassin houil. et perm. de Brive., p. 26, pl. ii. figs. 3–4.

^{page 216 note †} Flore foss. Bassin houil. d. Valenciennes, pl. xvi. fig. 1.

^{page 217 note *} See also my fig. 3, pl. i.

^{page 218 note *} Flore foss. Bassin houil. et perm. de Brive., p. 26, pl. ii. figs. 2, 2a, 2b, and 2c.

^{page 220 note *} The forma dentata is much more common than any other in the Upper Coal Measures.

^{page 221 note *} I have also seen the crenata form from the Forest of Wyre, but do not know the exact locality from which the specimen was collected.

^{page 221 note †} Note.—The other specimens of Sphenopteris crenata, L. and H. (pls. c.-ci.), came from the Whitehaven Coal Field, but I have hitherto been unable to visit this Coal Field, so can express no opinion as to their age.

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