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Description: | Taeniopteris is Latin for 'tapeworm leaf fern' which describes its long leaves. It belongs to the seed ferns that were very common in the Carboniferous period about 300 million years ago, and in the Jurassic period about 170 million years ago. They died out during the late Cretaceous period about 70 million years ago. It was a small shrub that had seeds and pollen producing organs on its leaves. This fossil fern was found in rocks laid down a marshy river delta, although they probably grew on drier riverbanks and higher ground inland from the delta. | 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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