The History of Land Plants
Fossil and Natural Specimens in Case 5:
How have plants responded to huge herbivores?
The plants the dinosaurs ate.
Scale: White + Black = 2 cm

Ginkgo huttoni Edmontosaurus annectens (Hadrosaur)
Middle Jurrasic, England, United Kingdom Hell Creek Formation, Late Cretaceous
IUS Department of Biology Collection Perkins Co., South Dakota
Collection of The Children's Museum of Indianapolis

Otozamites feistmanteli
Araucaria mirabilis cones
Jurassic, Durikai, Queensland, Australia Middle Jurassic, Cerro Cuadrato, Patagonia, Argentina
From a private collection Collection of The Children's Museum of Indianapolis

Yabeiella crassa Yabeiella moreysioco
Late Triassic Middle Triassic
Dinmore, Queensland, Australia
Both specimens from a private collection

Tietea singularis section Zamites sp. frond
Middle Permian Cretaceous
Araguaina, Brazil France
Both from the collection of The Children's Museum of Indianapolis

Sapindopsis sp. leaf Juniper leaves and fruit herbarium sheet
Sub-lithographic Limestone, Jurassic IUS Department of Biology Collection
Nammoura, Lebanon

Dioon sp., Cycad frond, IUS Department of Biology Greenhouse
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