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Description: | Ptilophyllum is a seed-bearing plant that belongs to an extinct group of plants known as the Bennettitales. This group appeared in the Triassic and died out in the late Cretaceous period. Ptilophyllum was a shrub that grew to about 2m tall and had its leaves in tufts at the end of stems. This fossil shows several compound leaves (leaves made up of many leaflets) and 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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