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Fossil cast of A. liaoningensis. Archaefructus is an extinct genus of herbaceous aquatic seed plants with three known species. Fossil material assigned to this genus originates from the Yixian Formation in northeastern China, originally dated as late Jurassic but now understood to be approximately 125 million years old, or early Cretaceous in age.
Nicolia is a genus of fossilized wood from the Late Cretaceous to Pleistocene of Belgium, [2] Ethiopia, Egypt, New Caledonia, [3] New Zealand, and Tunisia. [1] The type species is N. aegyptiaca . [ 1 ] [ 4 ]
The earliest fossil evidence for plants of this type are the lyginopterids of late Devonian age. [2] They flourished particularly during the Carboniferous and Permian periods. Pteridosperms declined during the Mesozoic Era and had mostly disappeared by the end of the Cretaceous Period, though Komlopteris seem to have survived into Eocene times ...
Archaeamphora longicervia is a fossil plant species, the only member of the hypothetical genus Archaeamphora. Fossil material assigned to this taxon originates from the Yixian Formation of northeastern China , dated to the Early Cretaceous (around 143 to 101 million years ago ).
Scientists discovered a 520-million-year-old fossilized larva with brains and guts intact, offering unprecedented insights into early arthropod evolution.
The International Fossil Plant Names Index (acronym IFPNI) is an online database of paleobotany.The site was launched in May 2014 to list the scientific names of fossil plants, algae, fungi, allied prokaryotic forms (formerly treated as algae and Cyanophyceae in particular), algal-related protists and microfossils published using binomial nomenclature.
The fossil history of flowering plants records the development of flowers and other distinctive structures of the angiosperms, now the dominant group of plants on land.The history is controversial as flowering plants appear in great diversity in the Cretaceous, with scanty and debatable records before that, creating a puzzle for evolutionary biologists that Charles Darwin named an "abominable ...
The Caytoniales (Figs. 1-2) are an extinct order of seed plants known from fossils collected throughout the Mesozoic Era, around 2] [3] [4] They are regarded as seed ferns because they are seed-bearing plants with fern-like leaves. [4]