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Answer for the clue "An ancestral fossil type from which modern gymnosperms are thought to have derived ", 13 letters:
progymnosperm

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The progymnosperms are an extinct group of woody, spore-bearing plants that is presumed to have evolved from the trimerophytes , and eventually gave rise to the gymnosperms . They have been treated formally at the rank of division Progymnospermophyta or ...

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n. an ancestral fossil type from which modern gymnosperms are thought to have derived