Early Jurassic

The Early Jurassic (201–174 Ma) occurs after the Rhaetian Age (Late Triassic), and before the Aalenian Age (Middle Jurassic) of the Mesozoic Era

Gondwanan floras start to resemble northern continents
- Equatorial groups became more prominent in Gondwana: Bennettitales, Conifers (e.g. Cheirolepidiaceae), Leptosporangiate ferns, such as Dipteriaceous, and Matoniaceous ferns, Ginkgoales and Czekanowskiales mostly absent from Gondwana, and Podocarp conifers prominent in Gondwana
Cordaites, gigantopterids, and glossopterids no longer dominate
Five distinct vegetative biomes exist by this time (Rees et al. 1999)
- Cool temperate
  - Low diversity of flora: 70 genera, 120 species
  - High proportion of deciduous and seasonal plants with growth rings
    - Dominated by ginkgoes
    - Macrophyllous conifers
      - woody and herbaceous members of Pinaceae and Voltziales
    - Ferns
    - Equisetophytes
- Warm temperate: below 60 degrees latitude and centered on 40 degrees
  - High in diversity
  - Ferns
  - Equisetophytes
  - Macrophyllous cycads
  - Macrophyllous conifers
    - woody and herbaceous members of Pinaceae, Taxodiaceae, Podocarpaceae
  - Ginkgoes were less common; first appearance of the genus Ginkgo
- Winterwet
- Subtropical desert
- Summerwet tropical