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The oldest accepted traces of land plants, spores in rocks of Oman, date to about 475 million years ago; whole plant fossils follow about 50 million years later, and flowering, fruit-bearing plants only about 130 million years ago.
The mechanism
GREEN ON THE LAND — four billion years after the sun
How it was checked
- EvidenceT6 PHYSICAL / OBSERVATION; Status: ADDED 2026-09-19
- Letter eraTHE DECLARATION AND THE DEEP RECORD the awakening to Babel: dated by ruling and by the record, placed by story where the text gives no date
- Plate — National Museum, Prague, Cooksonia barrandei fossil · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cooksonia_barrandei_(National_Museum_in_Prague).jpg
- SourcesFOSSIL — mid-Ordovician spores, ~475 Myr (Wellman, Osterloff & Mohiuddin, Nature 425:282–285, 2003; that they come from land plants is still debated); earliest plant megafossils ~425 Myr; earliest undisputed flowering-plant pollen, Early Cretaceous, ~130 Myr
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