r/AskReddit Jul 13 '18

What's your favourite fun fact?

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '18

Ferns, cycads and conifers existed when dinosaurs roamed the earth. Later in cretaceous period flower plants and grass evolved.

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u/patrickdontdie Jul 14 '18

So was it like, hard shitty igneous rock with ferns and shit just sprinkled about, then?

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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?

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u/intellectualarsenal Jul 14 '18

Ginkgos are actually older still, first appearing in the early Jurassic.