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