Angiosperms During The Cretaceous Period

Before humans ever roamed the Earth, many unique and strange life forms roamed the Earth such as dinosaurs and gymnosperms. They learned how to adapt to the changing and an unstable atmosphere of the Earth before it became what it is today. At the same time, the plants were also quite a discovery in the fossil record. The plants grew immensely and were quite plentiful for the herbivorous that roamed the Earth. However, there was one particular group of plants that eventually took over as the leading plant in the Cretaceous, which were angiosperms. Theses angiosperms are unique plants that later evolved along with sauropods and other creatures in the Cretaceous period. These plants were also known as flowering plants that were considered as

Although it is strange that angiosperms appeared later in the period of the dinosaurs; it still plays a role that helped the living forms during the Cretaceous period to survive the environment. These angiosperms or flowering plants had a rapid growth rate that stunned many scientists on how these plants were able to expand. From much research, people were able to hypotheses five different frameworks on what could have possibly explained the growth rate of angiosperms. However, all hypotheses only proved to have only a small amount of evidence of explaining the rate behind the angiosperms (Augusto, Davies, Delzon, & Schrijver, 2014). Nevertheless, each hypotheses were possible contributors to the process behind the growth. At the same time, the evolution of angiosperms may have had a connection with the diversity of insects as it did vice-versa. However, from the fossil record and the evidence that insects were diverse even before the rise of angiosperms revealed that the evolution of angiosperms in fact did not have much connection insects. But, it reveals that the evolution of angiosperms may have influenced some of the insects later on in the time period (Vea & Grimaldi, 2016). At the same time, it may have been insect-pollinated which could have possibly allowed them to expand (Hu, Dilcher, Jarzen, & Taylor, 2008). They were eventually found to have had a high pollinated production in the mid-Cretaceous. Nevertheless, the evolution of angiosperms continues to be researched as it is still a mystery as how they rapidly expanded during the Cretaceous