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Description: | This leaf was part of the foliage of a seed fern, the first type of plants to use seeds for reproduction. Seed ferns evolved in the Late Devonian period and were an important part of coal forest floras. They grew as shrubs, scrambling creepers and trees up to 10m tall. They usually grew in drier areas such as the raised levees (banks) of river channels. The branching patterns and shapes of the leaves are used to tell different types of seed ferns apart. | 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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