• FernFrederick@feddit.org
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    3 days ago

    I’m confused:

    The main early Carboniferous plants were the Equisetales (horse-tails), Sphenophyllales (scrambling plants), Lycopodiales (club mosses), Lepidodendrales (scale trees), Filicales (ferns), Medullosales (informally included in the “seed ferns”, an assemblage of a number of early gymnosperm groups) and the Cordaitales.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboniferous#Plants

    • mmcintyre@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      The meme says those Carboniferous ferns are extinct and currently alive ferns are from the Cretaceous.

      Edit: not all are extinct, just almost all… again, according to the meme, IANAB