During the Mesozoic Era rapid changes in the world's flora took place.
Many early plant groups, like the seed ferns, became extinct.  The modern
plant world began when plants with flowers, the angiosperms, appeared
during the Early Cretaceous.

Other plants of the Mesozoic included pines, redwoods, cycads (palm-like
trees) and impressive giant tree ferns.

Jim



>Hello all museum-l'ers.
>I am currently working on a dinosaur exhibit and am having some trouble finding
>flowering plants that lived both in the Mesozoic and in the recent.  What type
>of flowering plants existed in both times and do you have any ideas as to where
>I might find artificial representations of these plants.
>Thanks in advance
>Heidi Anderson
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>Heidi L. Anderson
>The Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Collections Assistant
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Jim Angus
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Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
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