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...ls as belonging to something in the [[olive]] family. It was not until the fossils were matched with fruits from living ''Eidothea'' trees that their true ide

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...Wollemia nobilis'' is the sole living member of its genus. The last known fossils of the genus date from approximately 2 million years ago.<ref>{{cite web [[Category:Living fossils]]

...of ''Pallaviciniites'' from the Upper [[Devonian]] of [[New York]]. These fossils resemble modern species in the [[Metzgeriales]]. Another Devonian fossil c

===Fossils=== ...nly the head capsule as a hard part that might be preserved. Yet there are fossils, some preserved in amber and some in very fine sediments. [[Leaf miner|Leaf

...e 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 yea

...[Extant taxon|extant]] species and one [[extinct]] species known from leaf fossils. This genus is a rare example of a [[disjunct]] range occurring in North Am

...[[Japan]], southern [[Korea]], [[Taiwan]] and the [[Ryukyu Islands]] with fossils know from [[North America]] and [[Europe]].<ref name="Pigg2001">{{cite jour

...llion years old. Other classes and orders, now long extinct, also occur as fossils, particularly from the late Paleozoic and [[Mesozoic]] eras. Fossil conifer

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...e known from the [[Silurian]] (more than 400 million years ago), and trace fossils resembling individual xylem cells may be found in earlier [[Ordovician]] ro

...dates to the Early Permian, 280 mya. There is controversy over older cycad fossils that date to the late [[Carboniferous]] period, 300 -325 mya. One of the fi ...gea. Cycadaceae is thought to be an early offshoot from other cycads, with fossils from Eocene deposits (38 – 54 mya) in Japan and China, indicating that th

...oup arising early in the history of the [[flowering plant]]s. The earliest fossils presumed to be monocot remains date from the [[Cretaceous|early Cretaceous]

...rminal crown like that of a palm or tree- fern. Cycads are found among the fossils of many geological formations, especially in those of the early Mesozoic. T

Recently discovered angiosperm fossils such as ''Archaefructus'', along with further discoveries of fossil gymnosp ...continuous fossil evidence showing exactly how flowers evolved. Some older fossils, such as the upper [[Triassic]] ''[[Sanmiguelia]]'', have been suggested. B

...s are known only from [[fossils]], which generally only preserve features. Fossils have not (so far) shown us what bred with what, and cannot tell us whether

...ound; dragon-flies with a wing-expanse of 2 to 3 feet then existed. Insect fossils found in the tertiary rocks indicate that there were even more kinds of ins