Redwood trees from the Cupressaceae family (Sequoia, Sequoiadendron and Metasequoia) are the largest plants living today, and even their fossil relatives already reached considerable sizes, as the trunk disc shown here clearly indicates.
Glyptostrobuseuropaeus, a water spruce belonging to the Cupressaceae (cypress family), was widespread in the Cretaceous and Cenozoic of Europe, North America, and Asia and was an important element of swampy lowland forests.
