Re: Is the "KâT boundary" now the "KâPg boundary" ?

["Dora Smith" <villandra@austin.rr.com>]

As far as I'm concerned, Pluto is a planet.

Yours,
Dora Smith
Austin, TX
tiggernut24@yahoo.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Erik Boehm" <erikboehm07@yahoo.com>
To: <dinosaur@usc.edu>; <Danvarner@aol.com>
Cc: <oxytropidoceras@cox.net>
Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 3:00 AM
Subject: Re: Is the "KâT boundary" now the "KâPg boundary" ?


> Yes, and Pluto is not a planet.
>
> People will still know what you mean when you say K-T
> Just as they will know you are talking about Pluto if you refer to the 
> ninth planet
>
> --- On Mon, 11/2/09, Danvarner@aol.com <Danvarner@aol.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Danvarner@aol.com <Danvarner@aol.com>
> > Subject: Re: Is the "KâT boundary" now the "KâPg boundary" ?
> > To: dinosaur@usc.edu
> > Cc: oxytropidoceras@cox.net
> > Date: Monday, November 2, 2009, 1:41 PM
> > In a message dated 11/2/2009 4:12:20
> > PM Eastern Standard Time,
> > oxytropidoceras@cox.net
> > writes:
> >
> > << The people on this list, who work with the K-T
> > Boundary might
> > consider the likelyhood that the recent formal ratification
> > of the
> > Quaternary System/Period and the Pleistocene Series/Epoch
> > systems has changed the "K-T Boundary" to the "K-Pg
> > Boundary" >>
> >
> > This has been dicussed on the DML numerous times. For
> > an example see:
> >
> > _http://dml.cmnh.org/2004Jun/msg00088.html_
> > (http://dml.cmnh.org/2004Jun/msg00088.html)
> >
> > "K/T" has a nice ring to it and will take a good
> > generation to disappear,
> > I'd think. "K-Pg" is a bit clumsy and I didn't know
> > she was pregnant. Now
> > back to my illustration of Trachodon. DV

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