Assertion: silver fern | /r/CapableOf | arrive in new zealand's history
Facets:
value: relatively late
type: TEMPORAL
value: during the pliocene epoch
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Arriving relatively late in New Zealand's history during the Pliocene epoch (around 5.0–1.8 million years ago), the silver fern occurs on the main islands of New Zealand—although absent from the west and south regions of the South Island—and on the Chatham Islands to the east.