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Annals of Botany 2009 103(7):v; doi:10.1093/aob/mcp052
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Plants and the K–T Boundary

Plants and the K–T Boundary
DJ Nichols, KR Johnson. 2008.
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. £65 (hardback). 292 pp.

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The ‘K–T Boundary’ or ‘end Cretaceous event’, which marks the extinction of the dinosaurs on land and the ammonites and other invertebrate fauna in the marine realm, is one of the major punctuation marks in the history of life. Its impact on plant life appears to have been of a much lesser magnitude. This book sets out to review the evidence from a wide geographic range of sites for the nature and timing of the effect of this ‘event’ on plant life.

The authors, both on the staff of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, have published extensively on fossil plants of Tertiary . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Bill Chaloner

E-mail w.chaloner@rhul.ac.uk


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