---- PLEASE NOTE: .XFR files are also included with all file ---- format zips, so you can edit them with Xfrog Software if ---- you wish.Archaeopteris (Archaeopteris sp.) Arboreal fern Period: Devonian Environment : coastal regions, river borders, floodplains Climate : warm Notes : Archaeopteris is one of Earth’s earliest trees, if not the earliest. Like all Devonian vegetation, it used to grow close to waters. Diffused in both Laurasia and Gondwana, it reproduced itself through spores. A real revolutionary species , it broke many “rules” of the time, such as vertical-only growth (he could grew lateral) and shallow roots (it’s roots were deeper than 1 mt.). It was the ancestor of many species of the following periods and the first “modern” tree. Model 1 specs: adult age, 30 meters Model 2 specs: medium age, 12 meters Model 3 specs: young age, 6 meters |