This XfrogPlants Archaeopteris 3D model collection contains three highly detailed, fully textured variations of the plant at different ages.

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 m.). It was the ancestor of many species of the following periods and the first “modern” tree.