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Fossil leaves in Doulton's Claypit

The fossil leaves found in Doulton’s Claypit are of Carboniferous age about 315 million years old. They grew in the very first tropical forests just North of the Equator. These fossil leaves are the primate ancestors of plants living today. The ancient forests were made of huge ferns, horsetails and club mosses with strange names like Lepidodendron, Calamites and Cordaites. Not trees with familiar names like Oak, Beech and Ash that we see growing in Saltwells wood today.







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