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Ancient underwater plant 'could be world's first flower'
- pvaldes 11y agommmh... If this is all the evidence that they have, I can not buy the idea. I could be wrong of course, but to me this plant is too similar to the extant members from the order Charales, aquatic plants having structures filled with spores that could be confused easily with fruits by a novice. An example to compare: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charophyceae#/media/File:CharaHispida.jpg https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charophyceae#/media/File:Chara... The problem is that Charophycea are not flowering plants at all, they are a type of calcified algae. Having hard tissues the fossils are easily traced since the silurian and are well known. They have ornated oosporanges with a structure that simulates one "seed" inside a cover. http://mcgregor.sbs.auckland.ac.nz/files/2011/01/dave_082_1.jpg http://mcgregor.sbs.auckland.ac.nz/files/2011/01/dave_082_1.... So I wonder why paleontologists see here an angiosperm. Maybe the species have roots? To me this is a typical algae.