This painting shows some of the plants that grew during Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous. In the background are some gymnosperms (pine trees). In the foreground is a species of seed plants, the bennetittales. These plants were cycad-like, but they formed into small shrubs. These had flowers and there is evidence that insects such the butterfly-like lacewings (Kalligrammatids) fertilised the plants, some even had eyespots! This is a good example of convergent evolution. The kalligrammatids lacewings appeared 165million years ago, and became extinct 120 million years ago. Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) appeared 45 million years later. A dinosaur, Mantellisaurus is about to drink some water after browsing the bennetittale shrubs growing by the pond. The species of bennetittales shown here in the foreground is Wielandiella angustifolia.

In the foreground you can follow footprints of a iguanodontian dinosaur. It has approached a cycadeoid (cycad with swollen stem) and eaten the young shoots.