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Description: | Zamites belongs to an extinct group of plants known as the Bennettitales that were common worldwide in the Jurassic peiod but died out in the late Cretaceous. It was a shrub that grew to about 2 metres tall and its leaves were arranged in crowns at the end of stems. This fossil shows some of its compound leaves (leaves made up of many leaflets). The specimen was collected by William Hutton, a pioneer researcher of British fossil plants in the early nineteenth century. Many of the fossils he collected are held at the Hancock Museum. | 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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