Assertion: angiosperm | /r/AtLocation | the fossil record
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text: Flowers are modified leaves possessed only by the angiosperms, which are relatively late to appear in the fossil record.
text: Fossils of angiosperms, or flowering plants (which are the most common plants today), first appear in the fossil record about 140 million years ago.
text: The first angiosperms that appear in the fossil record possess those characteristics typically assigned to the dicots, and both the monocots and eudicots evolved later.
text: The angiosperms first appeared in the fossil record in the early Cretaceous period (about 130 million years ago) and rapidly increased in diversity.