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Plant fossil

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Prehistoric plants are various groups of plants that lived before recorded history. (Around 3500 BC).

Plants have remained remarkedly unchanged thoughout earth's geological time scale. Early ferns had developed by the Mississippian. Conifer trees by the Pennsylvanian. Many plants of prehistory are the same ones around today and are thus living fossils, such as the famous Ginkgo biloba and Chinese Dawn redwood.

A few examples are:

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