Model of a Fossil plant Cooksonia

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Model of a Fossil plant Cooksonia
Species name: Cooksonia sp.

Purchased from Mr S, Caine, 2009
Museum number 2009-25

A model of the fossil plant Cooksonia. Cooksonia was one of the world’s first well-adapted land plants and appeared in the Silurian period, it became extinct in the Devonian. Cooksonia reached about 10cm in height, but already possessed many of the features of modern plants it had a thick waxy cuticle and stomata. It did not have roots or leaves, but the whole plant could photosynthesize. It had spore producing organs at the tips of it's branched stems.