"Araucariaceae – also known as araucarians[citation needed] – is a very ancient family of coniferous trees. The family achieved its maximum diversity during the Jurassic and ...
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Cretaceous periods, when it was distributed almost worldwide.
Most of the Araucariaceae in the Northern Hemisphere vanished in the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, and they are now largely confined to the Southern Hemisphere, except for a few species of Agathis in Southeast Asia." - (en.wikipedia.org 06.01.2021)
