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Figure 22. Reconstruction of a peat-forming, fluvial coal swamp and peripheral, bottom-land vegetation of Late Cretaceous age (about 70 million years ago) in what is now eastern Utah. Representative plants are as follows: A, horse-tail rush; B, sequoia; C, palm; D, Rhamnites, now extinct; E, Araucaria, now extinct; F, sycamore; G, fig; and H, cattail. Plants were growing on the banks of the swamp. Modified from Tidwell (1998, figure 37), used with permission of the author. |
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