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Info about plants millions of years ago
"ByoBlu" wrote in message . ..
Hi, I'm not an expert: therefor I came here since I believe you all are the right people to speak to. I'm writing a fantasy book and have to collect a reasonable amount of information about life 200 mya. Since this is a question essentially about paleontology, you could also try the newsgroup sci.bio.paleontology. I have to discover what plants, vegetables, grass and so on would you have found if living there, and if they were acceptable food or was it necessary to cook or treat it to eliminate poison. Any other information, even ideas, or useful relevant links is very appreciated. 200 million years ago places you right smack dab in the middle of what geologists and paleontologists call the Early Jurassic Period of the Mesozoic Era--the age of dinosaurs. There were no grasses back then--and flowering plants were nonexistent (although paleobotanical discoveries keep pushing the first known flowering plant farther and farther back in geologic time; right now, I believe the earliest recognized flowering plant in the geologic record is somewhere around 127 million years old). Plant life was dominated by Sphenopsids (horsetails) ferns, tree ferns, seed ferns, conifers (araucarians), ginkgoes (still living today, of course), cycads, and cycadoids. "Eight Miles High"--my solo, acoustic, instrumental 6-string guitar version of the classic PopRock song made famous by The Byrds (Clark/Hillman/Mcguinn composition) http://members.aol.com/geowrs/music/eightmileshigh.html |
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