[meteorite-list] K-Pg Impact Spurred the Evolution of the Modern Rainforest

[Paul]

How the Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Spurred the Evolution of

the Modern Rainforest. New evidence from fossil plants shows

today’s South American rainforests arose in the wake of Earth’s

fifth mass extinction. Smithsonian Magazine

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-dinosaur-killing-asteroid-spurred-evolution-modern-rainforest-180977390/

Prior to the Chicxulub impact, rainforests looked very different

Plant fossils from Colombia show a turnover from conifers to

today's forests. by Doug Johnson, Ars Technica, April 1, 2021

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/04/prior-to-the-chicxulub-impact-rainforests-looked-very-different/

Paper

Carvalho, M.R., Jaramillo, C., de la Parra, F. et al. 2021.

Extinction at the end-Cretaceous and the origin of modern

Neotropical rainforests. Science. Vol. 372, Issue 6537, pp. 63-68

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/372/6537/63

Related papers

Wing, S.L., Herrera, F., Jaramillo, C.A., Gómez-Navarro,

C., Wilf, P. and Labandeira, C.C., 2009. Late Paleocene

fossils from the Cerrejón Formation, Colombia, are the

earliest record of Neotropical rainforest. Proceedings of

the National Academy of Sciences, 106(44), pp.18627-18632.

Graham, H.V., Herrera, F., Jaramillo, C., Wing, S.L. and

Freeman, K.H., 2019. Canopy structure in Late Cretaceous

and Paleocene forests as reconstructed from carbon isotope

analyses of fossil leaves. Geology, 47(10), pp.977-981.

Yours,

Paul H.

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