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On Tue, 05 Dec 2000 14:10:22 GMT, Rick Toomey
<toomey@museum.state.il.us> wrote:


Fossils and Phenology in the Evolution of Ginkgo biloba,
Rothwell,Holt, Ohio University
Cladistics of the Spermatophyta, Brittonia, Loconte, Stevenson
A reevaluation of seed plant phylogeny, Ann Missouri Bot Gard
Lignophyte phylogeny and the evolution of spermatophytes, a numerical
cladistic analysis, Syst Bot

CorK
The Ginkgo Pages
http://www.xs4all.nl/~kwanten

>
>Hello,
>
>CorK wrote:
>> 
>> On 4 Dec 2000 21:39:40 GMT, una@mercury.cis.yale.edu (Una Smith)
>> wrote:
>> 
>> >
>> >kwantenzap@xs4all.nl (CorK) writes:
>> >
>> >>It might well be the first tree on earth, you're not well informed.
>> >
>> >It is certainly not the first tree on earth.  CorK, I suggest you go
>> >*read a paleobotany textbook*;  several good ones have already been
>> >cited in this thread.
>> 
>> I have.
>
>CorK, since you indicate that you have read a paleobotany text, 
>perhaps you could tell us which one supports your claim that
>the ginkgo "might well be the first tree on earth."  As a
>paleontologist, 
>I would definitely support Una's statement that it is certainly
>not the first tree on earth.  In fact, it is not even close.
>Trees predate the ginkgo line (let alone the genus Ginkgo), by something 
>like 50 million years.
>
>
>Rick Toomey
>Illinois State Museum
>toomey@museum.state.il.us