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Description: | Zamites belonged to an extinct group of plants known as the Bennettitales that lived throughout the world in the Jurassic period but died out in the late Cretaceous period. It was a shrub that grew to about 2m tall and its leaves were arranged in crowns at the end of stems. The specimen shows a fragment of a compound leaf~showing long, closely spaced leaflets arranged on 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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