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Description: | The well-preserved fossil leaflet preserved in a clay-ironstone nodule is part of a larger compound leaf or frond. The leaflet is made up of elongate pinnules (individual leaves) attached to a central stem. Seed Ferns grew as shrubs, scrambling creepers and small trees were the first plants to have seeds for reproduction. They were important coal forest plants but became extinct in the Cretaceous. Usually they grew on raised banks alongside river channels. | 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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