image: Artist's reconstruction of the newly discovered ecosystem, consisting of both conifer and flowering trees, dinosaurs, crocodylians, turtles, pterosaurs, and sharks. Three examples of the newly discovered fossil leaves are highlighted. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Sept. 26, 2018, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by N.A. Jud at William Jewell College in Liberty, MO, and colleagues was titled, "A new fossil assemblage shows that large angiosperm trees grew in North America by the Turonian (Late Cretaceous)." view more
Credit: Sae Bom Ra