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Tomozaurus β Sketch: Ginkgoalean trees of the Morrison
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Published: 2018-04-24 23:20:09 +0000 UTC; Views: 4795; Favourites: 162; Downloads: 36
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Specifically of the Kimmeridgian of Utah.Related content
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Amazing. I wonder what diversity the Ginkgophyta could have had if it hadnβt dwindled to just a single species.Β
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I've asked that question several times without a proper answer.
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I mea, itβs not really the sort of thing that thereβs a proper answer too so its not exactly unexpected that you never got a proper answer.
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Well, there should be.Β I mean, what makes ginkgophytes different from pinophytes or angiosperms?Β What environmental conditions did they need to survive?
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Those are questions that can be answered, but not by me. But I'm curious, how do you believe that a hypothetical question have a definite answer?
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Hypothetical?Β The past diversity of the ginkgophytes is concrete evidence--how is this hypothetical?
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Original question: 'what diversity the Ginkgophyta could have had if it hadnβt dwindled to just a single species'. Emphasis on could.
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That doesn't answer the question on how it ultimately lost to the angiosperms.
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'what diversity the Ginkgophyta could have had if it hadn't dwindled to a single species' was the original question, which you said you'd 'asked several times without a proper answer'. What I'm saying is that it was a hypothetical question, and that therefore there isn't a proper answer.
Other questions, on the other hand:
what makes ginkgophytes different from pinophytes or angiosperms?
What environmental conditions did they need to survive?
how it ultimately lost to the angiosperms?
These are questions that can be answered more easily because they actually happened, ie, not hypothetical. I feel like you've misunderstood what I'm trying to say, I suggest you reread this comment chain from the beginning to understand what I'm getting at.
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