ancient environments or extinct organisms (Biologos, 2012). Montsechia vidalii has two types of leaf morphology: one that had a long-leaf form (Figure 2) and another had short-leafs with mature fruit (Figure 3) (The Conversation, 2015). Many previous misinterpretations identified the plant as a moss, which could have been due to the characteristics in the found fossils (Scientific American, 2015). In figure 2 the long-leaf form rarely had mature seeds attached, which would have led scientists to a misinterpretation…
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