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Description: | Ptilophyllum is a seed-bearing plant that belongs to the extinct Bennettitales. This group of plants appeared in the Triassic period about 200 million years ago. They were very diverse and plentiful in the Jurassic period, and died out in the late Cretaceous about 70 million years ago. It was a shrub that grew to about 2m tall and had its leaves in tufts at the end of stems. The specimen shows several compound leaves (leaves made up of many leaflets) and lots of leaf fragments. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | fossils natural world | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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