Tubicaulis africanus, tree fern


Common plants of the Palaeophytic. Part of a petrified trunk of the tree fern Tubicaulis africanus, approximately 14cm wide, from the Permian Period, Tanganyika, Africa.


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Photo credit: © Natural History Museum, London / Alamy / Afripics
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