He called the organism Prototaxites, meaning “first conifer.” The name stuck, even though the fossil didn’t quite match any ...

Researchers reveal Prototaxites, a giant Devonian fossil, was not a fungus or plant but a unique extinct lineage.

Scientists then leaned towards it being a giant fungus, but the classification remained uncertain. A 2007 study even ...

When the first Prototaxites fossil was unearthed in 1843, it was mistaken for an ancient rotting conifer. But trees didn’t yet exist during the Silurian period, so what exactly was this thing ...

“It is a good example that shows the plant’s simple structure with no roots or leaves.” Unearthed from stratum from the Silurian Period near Prague, the fossil is comprised of a furcate stem ...

A Silurian fossil from Shropshire, England, interpreted as a priapulid worm. The curved body is about 7cm long. Rare example of a fossil sipunculan worm. This 4cm-long specimen of Lecthaylus comes ...

Our collection of fossil plants represents over 400 million years of plant evolution from the Silurian/Devonian to the present. Other groups such as the algae have been collected from much older ...

Silurian-Devonian early land plant spores and megafossils ... My Level 3 Projects (APS345) generally involve a palaeobiological investigation of fossils (usually plant fossils) that are collected and ...