The fossil, named Palaeopteridium andrenelii, corresponds to a new species of the extinct order Noeggerathiales, a primitive group of vascular plants known ... paleobotanical record of the ...

“It extends the fossil record of [early land plants] by something like 20 million years. . . . Also, potentially [the fossils] provide a sort of intermediate between the Cambrian record and the later ...

Researchers emphasize that this fossil confirms that cerapodan dinosaurs underwent diversification well before the Cretaceous ...

Robert Gastaldo However, a patchy fossil record has made it difficult to determine exactly when insects began feeding on plants like they do today according to Conrad Labandeira, the curator of ...