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Description: | Ptilophyllum is a plant that produces seeds and belongs to the extinct group called the Bennettitales This group appeared in the Triassic period, were spread all over the world in the Jurassic period and died out in the late Cretaceous period about 70 million years ago. It was a shrub that grew to about 2 metres tall with leaves arranged in tufts at the end of stems. This fossil shows fragments of compound leaves (leaves made up of smaller leaflets) along 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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