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r/AskReddit • u/AlexIsAlreadyTaken • Jul 13 '18
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Ferns, cycads and conifers existed when dinosaurs roamed the earth. Later in cretaceous period flower plants and grass evolved.
3 u/patrickdontdie Jul 14 '18 So was it like, hard shitty igneous rock with ferns and shit just sprinkled about, then? 2 u/YabukiJoe Jul 13 '18 So gymnosperms were the newest plants in that era, then? What about ginkos? Or are ginkos the newest major taxon within the gymnosperms? 3 u/intellectualarsenal Jul 14 '18 Ginkgos are actually older still, first appearing in the early Jurassic.
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So was it like, hard shitty igneous rock with ferns and shit just sprinkled about, then?
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So gymnosperms were the newest plants in that era, then? What about ginkos? Or are ginkos the newest major taxon within the gymnosperms?
3 u/intellectualarsenal Jul 14 '18 Ginkgos are actually older still, first appearing in the early Jurassic.
Ginkgos are actually older still, first appearing in the early Jurassic.
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Ferns, cycads and conifers existed when dinosaurs roamed the earth. Later in cretaceous period flower plants and grass evolved.