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Description: | This is a fossil female cone or 'flower' of the shrub Williamsonia gigas that grew to about 2 metres tall. The 'flower' was carried on a stalk that grew from the end of a plant stem beyond crown of leaves. The specimens show several petal -like bracts (sections) of the cone. Williamsoni belongs to the extinct group of plants known as the Bennettitales that were spread throughout the world in the Jurassic period but died out in the late Cretaceous about 70 million years ago. | 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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