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is native to Japan, southern Korea, Taiwan and the Ryukyu Islands with fossils know from North America and Europe. Trochodendron aralioides is an evergreen...

Marattiales. Other classes and orders of Equisetophyta are known from the fossil record, where they were important members of the world flora during the...

genus. The last known fossils of the genus date from approximately 2 million years ago. It is thus described as a living fossil, or alternatively, a Lazarus...

quillworts The members of this division have a long evolutionary history, and fossils are abundant worldwide, especially in coal deposits. In fact, most known...

more sets of Jurassic Lepidopteran fossils have been found, and 13 sets in the Cretaceous. From there, many more fossils are found from the Tertiary, and...

containing two extant species and one extinct species known from leaf fossils. This genus is a rare example of a disjunct range occurring in North America...

Proteaceae that Mueller misidentified the fossils as belonging to something in the olive family. It was not until the fossils were matched with fruits from living...

(the centre of diversity, with 30 species), and New Guinea (one species). Fossils from New South Wales and New Zealand are estimated to be 50 million years...

genera are recognizable from fossils 60-120 million years old. Other classes and orders, now long extinct, also occur as fossils, particularly from the late...

plant life. Fossil plants with anatomically preserved xylem are known from the Silurian (more than 400 million years ago), and trace fossils resembling...

The earliest fossils believed to be liverworts are compression fossils of Pallaviciniites from the Upper Devonian of New York. These fossils resemble modern...

exposed sites. These columnar trees are living fossils, dating back to early in the Mesozoic age. Fossil records show that the genus also formerly occurred...

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group arising early in the history of the flowering plants. The earliest fossils presumed to be monocot remains date from the early Cretaceous period. Taxonomists...

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sole member of the family Sciadopityaceae and genus Sciadopitys, a living fossil with no close relatives.wp Sciadopitys verticillata foliage photo 2 photo...

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only one in the genus Nypa, grows in southern Asia and northern Australia. Fossil mangrove palm pollen has been dated to 70 million years ago. Fossilized...