The same press release is found here, if the first link breaks. Paper that sets the academic framework for this new assessment of primitive angiosperms . From The Scientist , December 1999. Here is a background news story from the New York Times , August 1999. Gymnosperms and Early Angiosperms, and their Early Pollinators Jurassic Park plants from Wayne's Word at Palomar College.
Zamia is pollinated by a beetle.
Cycads and their pollinators . The astonishing Welwitschia , now thought to be a relative of gymnosperms rather than angiosperms. Feature article from California Wild , the magazine of the California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, Winter 2000. The astonishing Wollemi pine of Australia , thought to have been extinct for over 100 million years. It is an araucarian tree, over 100 feet high, surviving in wild country only 100 miles or so from Australia's largest city, Sydney.