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A fossil from the Denver Basin. Accessed at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.

Are there shifts in leaf mass per area across the KPB?

Butrim, M.J., Royer, D.L., Miller, I.M., Dechesne, M., Neu-Yagle, N., Lyson, T.R., Johnson, K.R., Barclay, R.S. (2022). No consistent shift in leaf dry mass per area across the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary. Front. Plant Sci., 13:894690. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2022.894690

Leaf mass per area during the Eocene-Oligocene transition.

Butrim, M.J. and Royer, D.L. (2020). Leaf-economic strategies across the Eocene–Oligocene transition correlate with dry season precipitation and paleoelevation. American Journal of Botany, 107(12), 1772-1785. doi: 10.1002/ajb2.1580

End-Cretaceous mass extinction in the Denver Basin

Lyson, T.R., Miller, I.M., Bercovici, A.D., Weissenburger, K., Fuentes, A.J., Clyde, W.C., Hagadorn, J.W., Butrim, M.J., Johnson, K.R., Fleming, R.F., Barclay, R.S. (2019). Exceptional continental record of biotic recovery after the Cretaceous–Paleogene mass extinction. Science, 366(6468), 977-983. DOI:10.1126/science.aay2268

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