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Prototaxites - Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 4 weeks ago by felixwhynot@lemmy.world to c/wikipedia@lemmy.world

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Just learned about these, weird

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[–] janus2@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 weeks ago

Prototaxites formed large trunk-like structures up to 1 metre (3 ft) wide, reaching 8 metres (26 ft) in height [...]

It was the tallest living organism in its day by far; in comparison, the contemporaneous plant Cooksonia only reached 6 centimetres (2.4 in) in height and itself towered over the "moss forests" that grew beneath it, and invertebrates were the only other land-dwelling multi-cellular life.

The landscape during this period must have looked super alien and weird in contrast with the post treepocalypse Earth we know today