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The fossil history of flowering plants records the development of flowers and other distinctive structures of the angiosperms, now the dominant group of plants on land.The history is controversial as flowering plants appear in great diversity in the Cretaceous, with scanty and debatable records before that, creating a puzzle for evolutionary biologists that Charles Darwin named an "abominable ...
Prehistoric plants that lived during the Miocene epoch, of the Neogene Period of the Cenozoic Era For the preceding, see Category: Oligocene plants . For the succeeding, see Category: Pliocene plants .
The Neogene (/ ˈ n iː. ə dʒ iː n / NEE-ə-jeen, [6] [7]) is a geologic period and system that spans 20.45 million years from the end of the Paleogene Period 23.03 million years ago to the beginning of the present Quaternary Period 2.58 million years ago.
The identification of plant fossils in Cambrian strata is an uncertain area in the evolutionary history of plants because of the small and soft-bodied nature of these plants. It is also difficult in a fossil of this age to distinguish among various similar appearing groups with simple branching patterns, and not all of these groups are plants.
Prehistoric plants of the Neogene Period, during the Middle Cenozoic Era See also the preceding Category:Paleogene plants and the succeeding Category:Quaternary plants Subcategories
In 2004, the Tertiary Period was officially replaced by the Paleogene and Neogene Periods. The common use of epochs during the Cenozoic helps palaeontologists better organise and group the many significant events that occurred during this comparatively short interval of time.
Prehistoric plants that lived during the Pliocene epoch, in the Neogene Period of the Cenozoic Era See also the preceding Category:Miocene plants and the succeeding Category:Pleistocene plants Pages in category "Pliocene plants"
The Pleistocene is the first epoch of the Quaternary Period and the sixth epoch of the Cenozoic Era. Pliocene The geologic period that extends from 5.332 million to 2.588[2] million years Before Present. It is the second-youngest epoch of the Neogene Period in the Cenozoic Era. The Pliocene follows the Miocene and is followed by the Pleistocene ...