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Living fossils..

Plants

• Pteridophytes
  • Horsetails – Equisetum
• Gymnosperms
  • Welwitschia

• • Araucaria araucana – the monkey puzzle tree
  • Cycads
  • Ginkgo tree (Ginkgoaceae)
  • Metasequoia – dawn redwood (Cupressaceae; related to Sequoia and Sequoiadendron)
  • Sciadopitys “Japanese umbrella pine”
  • Taiwania cryptomerioides – one of the largest tree species in Asia.
  • Wollemia tree (Araucariaceae – a borderline example, related to Agathis and Araucaria)[10][11]
• Angiosperms

• • Amborella – a plant from New Caledonia, possibly closest to base of the flowering plants
  • Sycamore tree – leaves of fossil sycamores have an incredibly similar phenotype to those living today
  • Trapa – water caltrops, seeds, and leaves of numerous extinct species are known all the way back to the Cretaceous.
  • Nelumbo – several species of lotus flower are known exclusively from fossils dating back to the Cretaceous.

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