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"Jurassic Age" by Charles R. Knight
This painting depicts a hyphothetical landscape of Bavaria, Germany, around 150 million years ago. The painter's focus was on the flying creatures of the age, with reptilian pterosaurs at the top, Archaeopteryx--the first known bird--in the middle, and Compsagnathus--the "compy" of Jurassic Park fame and a controversial possible ancestor of all birds--at the lower left. However, the reason for displaying this painting in the Virtual Cycad Encyclopedia is not for the birds, but rather because every plant shown is a cycad. Any ideas on the genera represented?

Field Museum of Natural History negative #CK39T. Used with permission.

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