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Description: | Todites belongs to a group of living ferns called the Osmundales that first appeared in the Permian period about 250 million years ago. The group was important in the Jurassic period and is found today in humid tropical areas. It was a typical fern with a crown of fronds (leaves) up to 2 metres tall that grew out of a thick woody rhizome (root). This fossil shows compound leaves (leaves made up of smaller leaflets). These oval-shaped leaflets are called pinnules, and are arranged along a central stem. | 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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