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Re: Allo(ween)saurus (still joking)

To: alain.beneteau@paleospot.com
Subject: Re: Allo(ween)saurus (still joking)
From: Nick Pharris <npharris@umich.edu>
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 12:54:27 -0500
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Quoting Alain Bénéteau <alain.beneteau@paleospot.com>:

Because there was no pumpkin during mesozoic... right?

Right. Pumpkins (being squashes) are relatively derived flowering plants and hence would certainly not have been around during the Jurassic. I don't know whether there are any records of Cucurbitaceae from the Cretaceous.

http://www.paleospot.com/croquis/alloweensaurus.jpg


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Nick Pharris
Department of Linguistics
University of Michigan

"Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity."
    --Edwin H. Land

References:
- Allo(ween)saurus (still joking)
  - From: Alain Bénéteau <alain.beneteau@paleospot.com>

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