An interview with paleobotanist William D. Tidwell. This Megalania page has been visited times since April 10, 1998. Giant ferns and primitive palms are the order of the day, their large, broad leaves providing shade and decorating the landscape.
Stately conifers grow in some areas.
Certainly, no one was around to take pictures, or even make cave paintings. Unfortunately, nature was an imprecise scrapbook keeper, and there are gaps and holes in the stony record. We have a black lake of ignorance, and we work in the bits of light along the edge. With no other common name, Hermanophyton is a plant that flourished 150 million or so years ago. It has a stem, with wedge-shaped sections grouped around a central core.