The Mesophytic flora

Araucarian petrified wood section, 25 cm, Triassic, Ambilobe, Madagascar.	Dicroidium odontopteroids (Morris), 75mm seed fern foliage with characteristic bifurcations. M Triassic, Blackstone Fm, Dinmore	Osmundacaulis sp, 95 mm polished section. Jurassic, near Miles, Queensland, Australia.	Osmundacaulis sp, 95 mm polished section. Jurassic, near Miles, Queensland, Australia.	A spectacular 12 cm piece of Araucaria wood preserved as jet, Jet Shale, Upper Lias, Lower Jurassic, near Whitby, Yorkshire.
Equisitum columnare, Saltwick Formation, Aalenian, Middle Jurassic, Hayburn Wyke, Yorkshire	Fertile Matonia braunii with Victorian label (Pecopteris multicaulis Bean, Oolitic Shale, Gristhorpe Bay, Yorks).	Seed fern Pachypteris papillosa, 57 mm long. Aalenian, Roseberry Topping, North Yorkshire.	Seed or fructification, 1 cm from Pachypteris-rich beds of the Aalenian, Roseberry Topping, North Yorkshire.	Leptocycas gracilis, Upper Triassic, Chatham County, North Carolina, USA
Zamites gigas, 30 cm bennetitale frond. Saltwick Formation, Middle Jurassic (Aalenian). Saltwick, Whitby, Yorkshire.	Zamites feneonis Pomel 1848 Upper Jurassic Kimmeridgian, Orbagnoux, Département de l'Ain, France.	Cycadolepis sp. Bennetitale? bract, Upper Jurassic Kimmeridgian, Orbagnoux, Département de l'Ain, France.	Protocupressinoxylon purbeckensis, wood, one section polished. Purbeck Limestone Group, Upper Jurassic, Purbeck, Dorset, England	Agathis jurassica (described by Mary White in 1981), 14 cm, Jurassic, Talbragar, New South Wales, Australia
Agathis jurassica (described by Mary White in 1981), 14 cm, Jurassic, Talbragar, New South Wales, Australia	Rintoulia pinnata, 9 cm plant, Jurassic, Talbragar, New South Wales, Australia	Nipaniophyllum (leaf) of Pentoxylon australica, 7 cm plant, Jurassic, Talbragar, New South Wales, Australia	Cavenderichthys Trabalgarensis, Upper Jurassic, Talbragar, New South Wales, Australia	A beautiful bennetitale "flower" from the Lower Cretaceous Jehol biota of China.
Metasequoia leafy shoot with opposing leaflets (see Grimaldi et al. 2002), 24 mm long.	An exquisite fertile fern from Myanmar.	Cretacifilix fertile fern pinnae showing sori (clusters of sporangia).	Thuja, Baltic amber	A 15 cm conifer cone from the Crato Formation of Brazil, Late Aptian-Early Albian, Lower Cretaceous.
A foretaste of the Cenophytic - an early angiosperm, Crato Formation of Brazil, Late Aptian-Early Albian, Lower Cretaceous.	Metasequoia cone, 2 cm, Upper Cretaceous. Hell's Creek, USA.	Anomozamites villosus, Middle Jurassic Daohugou, Inner Mongolia	Anomozamites villosus, Middle Jurassic Daohugou, Inner Mongolia	Yanliaoa daohugouensis, Middle Jurassic Daohugou, Inner Mongolia, Cupressaceae