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Ep. 360 - Exploring a 4.5 Million Year Old Flora

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What's the Story of the Flora of North America?

The time period in which these fossils were formed was pre glacial. And so it's almost like you had a set of players. The glaciers happened in north america, and whatever was left was what was able to kind of a survive it and make its way back up there. We're getting ice ages and glaciation, and that probably did have a lot of effect on the flora. It probably did cause extinctions. So we do kind of have some idea of what's going on in the pla sen because yet, you can get ten onlay, be lake sediments or something, look at the pollend flora. You might even find, in even preserved vertebrates,

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