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  1. Timeline of plant evolution - Wikipedia

    This article attempts to place key plant innovations in a geological context. It concerns itself only with novel adaptations and events that had a major ecological significance, not those that are of solely …

  2. Fossil history of flowering plants - Wikipedia

    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 …

  3. Evolutionary history of plants - Wikipedia

    The fungi were of the phylum Glomeromycota, [40] a group that probably first appeared 1 billion years ago and still forms arbuscular mycorrhizal associations today with all major land plant groups from …

  4. Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution - Wikipedia

    The Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution (abbreviated KTR), also known as the Angiosperm Terrestrial Revolution (ATR) by authors who consider it to have lasted into the Paleogene, [1] describes the …

  5. Flowering plant - Wikipedia

    Flowering plants are also commonly grown for decorative purposes, with certain flowers playing significant cultural roles in many societies. Out of the "Big Five" extinction events in Earth's history, …

  6. Plant evolution - Wikipedia

    Subset of evolutionary phenomena that concern plantsCladogram of plant evolution Plant evolution is the subset of evolutionary phenomena that concern plants. Evolutionary phenomena are …

  7. Timeline of life - Wikipedia

    The timeline of life represents the current scientific theory outlining the major events during the development of life on Earth. Dates in this article are consensus estimates based on scientific …

  8. Cretaceous - Wikipedia

    Flowering plants (angiosperms) make up around 90% of living plant species today. Prior to the rise of angiosperms, during the Jurassic and the Early Cretaceous, the higher flora was dominated by …