Plant
Montsechia
Montsechia vidalii was an aquatic plant with slender branching stems and small leaves.
Montsechia vidalii was an aquatic plant with slender branching stems and small leaves. Its fossils preserve an unusual early flowering-plant body plan.
Three stages. One companion.
Game artwork
AI-generated, stylized game illustrations. These designs and growth stages are imaginative, not scientific reconstructions.
Montsechia at a glance
- Diet
- Photosynthetic
- It used sunlight to make organic matter through photosynthesis.
- When it lived
- Early Cretaceous
- Group
- Angiospermae
- Early flowering plants
Beyond the game
The real Montsechia
Montsechia vidalii was an aquatic plant with slender branching stems and small leaves. Its fossils preserve an unusual early flowering-plant body plan.
Its reproductive evidence is important to the history of early flowering plants. The submerged branching body differed from both a fern and a land-growing tree seedling.
Fossil discoveries
Selected fossil records · present-day map
Map references
Gomez et al. 2015 — Montsechia, an ancient aquatic angiosperm ↗
Map location · Las Hoyas, Cuenca, Spain ↗
Map: Natural Earth, public domain. Fossil records: Paleobiology Database and linked collections and publications.Sources & text credits
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