Much of the world's coal reserves were formed from the buried remains of the dominant plants of the Carboniferous period. What were the dominant plants of the period?

a. gymnosperms and angiosperms
b. angiosperms only
c. gymnosperms only
d. seedless vascular plants


Ans: d. seedless vascular plants

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