Prototaxites, an extinct organism from the Devonian period, has been thought to be a fungus since its first fossil was ...

In fact, trees didn’t even exist during the Silurian period ... fungi, and early plants. Comparing P. taiti to other fossils from the same deposit allowed researchers to test their findings ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...