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Taxodium at Ellecom (NL): a living fossil.
| This website is dedicated to fossil plants. The first indications
for the existence of land plants date from 470 million years ago, from the
Ordovician. The oldest fossils of land plants visible with the naked eye
are about 425 million years old, from the Middle Silurian. From this time
on the plants spread over the land and the continents turned to green.
This was the beginning of an amazing development, which created the terms
for animal life on land. On the basis of mainly self-found fossils a view is given of plant life in the Silurian, the Devonian, the Carboniferous and the Permian. Enjoy the beauty and the multitude of forms of long vanished plants! Small animals, living between the plants, are also considered. And now a little bit Mesozoic and Tertiary! |
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Hans Steur, Ellecom, The Netherlands
February 11, 2013
