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Jurassic Plants
Jurassic Plants Sub Heading
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Vegetation in the Jurassic period included ferns, horsetails,
conifers, bennettites, Pentoxylales and Caytoniales
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Seed ferns (which dominated the Triassic flora) are
less common in the Jurassic period
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The fern species included those in the genera Cladophlebis,
Hausmannia, Pachypteris and Dictyophyllum
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Otozamites, with its cycad-like leaves, was common in
some of the older Jurassic floras in Queensland
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Other rarer groups of plants include the Pentoxylales,
known for their beautiful stems
Jurassic Plants
A riverine and swampy environment including conifers, ferns and horsetails.
© Queensland Museum, Atuchin
