: Another Angiosperm Seen in the Early Permian?

"How old are angiosperms" is a frequently asked but still unanswered question. Although the underlying reason includes a lack of consensus on the criterion for fossil angiosperms, limited fossil finds, and other factors, the final answer to the question apparently lies in fossils, not wrangling among different schools. The currently mainstream idea in palaeobotany is that angiosperms cannot have existed earlier than the Early Cretaceous.