Editing Living fossil (section)

===Plants===
* [[Moss]]
*'''[[Pteridophytes]]'''
** [[Horsetail]]s – ''Equisetum''
** [[Lycopodiophyta|Lycopods]] 
** [[Tree fern]]s and [[ferns]] 
*'''[[Gymnosperm]]s'''
** [[Conifers]]
***''[[Agathis]]'' – kauri in New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific and almasiga in the Philippines
*** ''[[Araucaria araucana]]'' – the monkey puzzle tree (as well as other extant ''[[Araucaria]]'' species)
*** ''[[Metasequoia]]'' – dawn redwood (Cupressaceae; related to ''[[Sequoia (genus)|Sequoia]]'' and ''[[Sequoiadendron]]'')
*** ''[[Sciadopitys]]'' – a unique conifer endemic to Japan known in the fossil record for about 230 million years.
*** ''[[Taiwania|Taiwania cryptomerioides]]'' – one of the largest tree species in Asia.
*** ''[[Wollemia]]'' tree (''[[Araucariaceae]]'' – a borderline example, related to ''[[Agathis]]'' and ''[[Araucaria]]'')<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Chambers | first1 = T.C. | last2 = Drinnan | first2 = A.N. | last3 = McLoughlin | first3 = S. | year = 1998 | title = Some morphological features of Wollemi Pine (Wollemia nobilis: Araucariaceae) and their comparison to Cretaceous plant fossils | journal = International Journal of Plant Sciences | volume = 159 | pages = 160–171 | doi=10.1086/297534| s2cid = 84425685 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | author = McLoughlin S., Vajda V. | year = 2005 | title = Ancient wollemi pines resurgent | journal = American Scientist | volume = 93 | issue = 6| pages = 540–547 | doi=10.1511/2005.56.981| last2 = Vajda }}</ref>
** [[Cycad]]s – although this has been challenged by multiple lines of evidence<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Nagalingum |first1=N. S. |last2=Marshall |first2=C. R. |last3=Quental |first3=T. B. |last4=Rai |first4=H. S. |last5=Little |first5=D. P. |last6=Mathews |first6=S. |date=2011-11-11 |title=Recent Synchronous Radiation of a Living Fossil |url=https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1209926 |journal=Science |language=en |volume=334 |issue=6057 |pages=796–799 |doi=10.1126/science.1209926 |pmid=22021670 |bibcode=2011Sci...334..796N |issn=0036-8075|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Coiro |first1=Mario |last2=Seyfullah |first2=Leyla Jean |date=2024-03-14 |title=Disparity of cycad leaves dispels the living fossil metaphor |journal=Communications Biology |language=en |volume=7 |issue=1 |page=328 |doi=10.1038/s42003-024-06024-9 |issn=2399-3642 |pmc=10940627 |pmid=38485767}}</ref> 
** ''[[Ginkgo biloba|Ginkgo]]'' tree (Ginkgoaceae)
** ''[[Welwitschia]]''
*'''[[Angiosperm]]s'''
** ''[[Amborella]]'' – a plant from New Caledonia, possibly closest to base of the [[angiosperms|flowering plants]]
** ''[[Magnolia]] –'' a genus whose form is little changed since the earliest days of flowering plant evolution in the Cretaceous and possibly earlier<ref>{{Cite web |last=Vallejo-Marin |first=Mario |date=2017-08-01 |title=Revealed: the first ever flower, 140m years ago, looked like a magnolia |url=http://theconversation.com/revealed-the-first-ever-flower-140m-years-ago-looked-like-a-magnolia-81861 |access-date=2023-05-17 |website=The Conversation |language=en}}</ref>[https://arboretum.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/tree-of-the-month-magnolias.pdf]
** ''[[Trapa]]'' – water caltrops, seeds, and leaves of numerous extinct species are known all the way back to the Cretaceous.
** ''[[Nelumbo]]'' – several species of lotus flower are known exclusively from fossils dating back to the Cretaceous.
** ''[[Sassafras]]'' – many fossils of sassafras are known from the late cretaceous through the late pleistocene.
** ''[[Platanus]]'' Sycamore fossils are very abundant throughout the northern hemisphere with several extinct species. Sycamore leaves and fruits are quite common in plant fossils. Sycamores exhibit many primitive features as well such their exfoliating bark which is a result of a lack of elasticity. Platanus Occidentalis fossils are known from the pliocene and the pleistocene in North America.
** ''[[Tupelo (tree)|Nyssa]]'' Blackgum fossils go way back to the late cretaceous period. Many extinct species are recorded as well.
** ''[[Liriodendron]]'' Fossils from the cretaceous and the tertiary period are found with many extinct species. Tulip Trees at one point were present in Europe during the cretaceous and the early paleocene. Liriodendron Tulipifera fossils dating from the pliocene and pleistocene were discovered at the chowan formation in North Carolina.
** ''[[Liquidambar]]'' Sweetgums appeared during the mid-late cretaceous and several extinct species are found throughout Asia, Europe and North America. The genus was once widespread in Europe and Asia especially during the miocene. The American Sweetgum is a living fossil itself since fossil specimens dating from the miocene, pliocene and pleistocene were discovered in the eastern United States