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Description: | This fossil belongs to a group of plants called the Coniferales (the conifers). This group still survives today and first appeared in the Carboniferous period about 300 million years ago. They were most common in the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. The conifer group is still important today, with over 600 different species. They include some of the largest trees on Earth and are very widespread in the Northern Hemisphere. The specimen shows parts of stems with male pollen-bearing cones attached. | 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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