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RE: lianas/melons in cretceous

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Subject: RE: lianas/melons in cretceous
From: Anthony Docimo <keenir@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 06:32:37 +0000
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> Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 22:04:22 -0800
> From: ddkrentz@charter.net
> To: dinosaur@usc.edu
> Subject: lianas/melons in cretceous
> 
> Is there any evidence for melons in the cretaceous?
 
None I have heard/read of.
 
> There were vines (vitas) but did those fruits expand to melon like size? 
> Wouldn't seed be preserved if there were?
 
The seeds would be preserved, yes.  But without either a fruit mummy or _Mei 
long_ levels of preservation, I'm not sure we would know that it was - for 
example - the one fruit the size of a watermelon, as opposed to several 
apple-sized fruits.
 
 
I'm happy to be wrong, however.

> 
> D

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- lianas/melons in cretceous
  - From: David Krentz <ddkrentz@charter.net>

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