Re: the P-T boundary

[Stanley Friesen <sarima@ix.netcom.com>]

At 05:12 PM 7/5/97 -0500, Michael wrote:
>I wonder if Stan meant that the recent ancesters of our hardwoods 
>were already around in the Late Cretaceous, which they were.  It 
>might be hard for a non-botanist time traveler to tell the 
>difference.

That is certainly a large part of what I meant.

I also meant that the floral change across the K-T boundary was quite
subtle, with only a few new forms coming in, and relatively few forms dying
out.

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