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Triassic Plant

The mass extinction of the Permian period left a nearly blank slate for new plant and animal species to arise during the Triassic. Tree-like seed ferns, such as this fossilized Dicroidium found on South Island, New Zealand, developed during this period along with a variety of other flora, some of whose ancestors still exist today.

Photograph by George Mobley