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Re: New order of Bug found - ALSO, Oldest Bird Clocks 5 million miles

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Subject: Re: New order of Bug found - ALSO, Oldest Bird Clocks 5 million miles
From: "David Marjanovic" <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 11:59:13 +0200
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Allan Edels" <edels@msn.Com>
Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 10:33 AM


> "These creatures are some of the last witnesses of the time when Africa
> and America were part of the same landmass,"
>
> Nearly dinosaurian in age.

Not just nearly. That's Early Cretaceous. 94 Ma ago they were already
separated: http://www.scotese.com/cretaceo.htm. (Though I don't think
eastern Greenland and western Norway had exactly their present shorelines,
as shown, instead of being connected.)

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