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Description: | This fossil belongs to a living group of plants, the Cycadales that first appeared in the Permian. They were most diverse and abundant with a world-wide distribution in the Jurassic. Nilsonia probably had a very short trunk with a crown of leaves and grew a few metres in height. Present day cycads grow very slowly and some live for more than 1,000 years. The specimen shows part of a compound leaf with regularly spaced leaflets 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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