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Flowering plants

      The flowering plants (angiosperms), also known as Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants. Angiosperms are seed-producing plants like the gymnosperms and can be distinguished from the gymnosperms by a series of synapomorphies (derived characteristics). These characteristics include flowers, endosperm within the seeds, and the production of fruits that contain the seeds. The ancestors of flowering plants diverged from gymnosperms around 245–202 million years ago, and the first flowering plants known to exist are from 140 million years ago. They diversified enormously during the Lower Cretaceous and became widespread around 100 million years ago, but replaced conifers as the dominant trees only around 60–100 million years ago.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowering_plant


 

C_B464a
Acer dasycarpoides ČB464
C_B464
Acer dasycarpoides ČB464
WA4
Araliophyllum nemejcii WA4
MP131
Arecaceae MP131
MP169
Carya serraefolia (Goeppert, 1855) MP169
C_B372
Carya serraefolia (Goeppert, 1855) ČB372
MP158
Carya serraefolia (Goeppert, 1855) MP158
MP69
Cercidiphyllum crenatum MP69
MP142
Cercidiphyllum crenatum MP142
MP62
Crataegus pirskenbergensis MP62
MP77
Diospyros MP77
MP95
Dombeyopsis lobata MP95
p1837
Ettingshausenia senonensis p1837
p2960
Ettingshausenia senonensis p2960
p1820
Ettingshausenia senonensis p1820
p2753
Juglans bilinica p2753
MP172a
Laurophyllum MP172
C_B255
Liquidambar europaea ČB255
C_B464a
Liquidambar europaea ČB464
C_B464
Liquidambar europaea ČB464

In the Virtual Museum there are total 1461 samples

Virtual museum of the Czech Geological Survey, www.geology.cz, (C) Czech Geological Survey, 2011, v.0.99 [13.12.2011]