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Re: No Cretaceous rainforests?

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Subject: Re: No Cretaceous rainforests?
From: "David Marjanovic" <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 21:00:08 +0200
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> [...] Does this mean there were NO rain forests
> during the Cretaceous?

IIRC a chapter in Currie & Padian's The Dinosaur Encyclopedia (1998) says
something like only Cheirolepidiaceae ( = Hirmeriellaceae), a group of
conifers that died out at the K-T, grew in the Mesozoic tropics and
indicates dry conditions, right? (In any case *Hirmeriella* is known from
Solnhofen.)

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