Offers a comprehensive history, for the first time documenting Pre-Cretaceous angiosperms, and showing the diversity of angiosperms in the Jurassic

Presents a new theory on flower-making that corrects misconceptions

Contains numerous pictures to illustrate fossil plants

Inhalt
Introduction.- Suggested angiosperm ancestors.- Angiosperms: characters and criteria.- Background for the plant fossils.- Flowers from the Early Cretaceous.- Flower-related fossils from the Jurassic.- Problematic fossils.- Making of the flower.