Plant
Wattieza
Wattieza casasii was a tree-like plant with a crown of branching fronds.
Wattieza casasii was a tree-like plant with a crown of branching fronds. Its unusual architecture helps reconstruct some of the earliest known forests.
Three stages. One companion.
Game artwork
AI-generated, stylized game illustrations. These designs and growth stages are imaginative, not scientific reconstructions.
Wattieza at a glance
- Diet
- Photosynthetic
- It used sunlight to make organic matter through photosynthesis.
- When it lived
- Middle Devonian
- Group
- Cladoxylopsida
- Cladoxylopsid plants
Beyond the game
The real Wattieza
Wattieza casasii was a tree-like plant with a crown of branching fronds. Its unusual architecture helps reconstruct some of the earliest known forests.
Its crown consisted of branching fronds at the top of a trunk. Although its silhouette can resemble a palm, it was a spore-producing plant from a different evolutionary branch.
Fossil discoveries
Selected fossil records · present-day map
Map references
Berry & Casas 2024 — Wattieza, the world’s oldest giant cladoxylopsid tree ↗
Map location · Caño Colorado, Sierra de Perijá, Venezuela ↗
Map: Natural Earth, public domain. Fossil records: Paleobiology Database and linked collections and publications.Sources & text credits
Explore the references behind this profile.
- Berry 2000 — A reconsideration of Wattieza Stockmans based on a new species from the Devonian of Venezuela
- Museum Wales holotype Wattieza casasii NMW93.97G.38c–d
- Stein et al. 2007 — Giant cladoxylopsid trees resolve the enigma of the Earth’s earliest forest stumps at Gilboa
Original English Dinosgacha educational summaries informed by the linked scientific and museum references; source publications retain their own rights.