Image of the Day: Primordial Plants
This ancient relative of the Ginkgo biloba (Umaltolepis mongoliensis) dates back 100 million years, to the early Cretaceous Period.
The Scientist Staff
Mar 8, 2017
Reconstruction of the ancient, dinosaur-era relative of today's Ginkgo biloba plant.FABIANY HERRERA & PATRICK HERENDEEN
(See F. Herrara et al., “The presumed ginkgophyte Umaltolepis has seed-bearing structures resembling those of Peltaspermales and Umkomasiales,” PNAS doi:10.1073/pnas.1621409114, 2017.)
