Early Triassic

What happened during this time?

• Glossopterids become conspicuous part of flora until end of Early Triassic 

• Cycads, conifers, modern ferns, ginkgophytes begin to diversify during Triassic

• The large Lepidodendrid trees disappear from the landscape after the Permian

  • Representatives from the Lycopodiales. Selaginellales, and Isoetales survive, but are less prominent

  • Pleuromeiales, close relatives of the Lepidodendrids appear during the Triassic

• Sphenophyllales disappear at the end of the Early Triassic, but horsetails (Equisetales) continue as riverside flora in many areas.

• Many modern ferns (Filicalean) begin to appear in the Triassic, and will radiate during Jurassic