Ep. 360 - Exploring a 4.5 Million Year Old Flora

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In Defense of Plants

Botany, Natural Sciences, Ecology, Nature, Plants, Science

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🗓️ 13 March 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

If you could travel back in time 4.5 million years, how different would the flora look in your area? That is a difficult question to answer because we don't know of many fossil beds that capture this time period. That is one of the reasons the Gray Fossil Site in Tennessee is so amazing. Join me and Paleobotanist Dr. Liz Hermsen for a discussion about some of the amazing discoveries she and her colleagues are making from this unique paleontological gold mine. This episode was produced in part by Pamela, Peter, Andrea, Nathan, Karyn, Michelle, Jillian, Chellie, Linda, Laura, Miz Holly, Christie, Carlos, Paleo Fern, Levi, Sylvia, Lanny, Ben, Lily, Craig, Sarah, Lor, Monika, Brandon, Jeremy, Suzanne, Kristina, Christine, Silas, Michael, Aristia, Felicidad, Lauren, Danielle, Allie, Jeffrey, Amanda, Tommy, Marcel, C Leigh, Karma, Shelby, Christopher, Alvin, Arek, Chellie, Dani, Paul, Dani, Tara, Elly, Colleen, Natalie, Nathan, Ario, Laura, Cari, Margaret, Mary, Connor, Nathan, Jan, Jerome, Brian, Azomonas, Ellie, University Greens, Joseph, Melody, Patricia, Matthew, Garrett, John, Ashley, Cathrine, Melvin, OrangeJulian, Porter, Jules, Griff, Joan, Megan, Marabeth, Les, Ali, Southside Plants, Keiko, Robert, Bryce, Wilma, Amanda, Helen, Mikey, Michelle, German, Joerg, Cathy, Tate, Steve, Kae, Carole, Mr. Keith Santner, Lynn, Aaron, Sara, Kenned, Brett, Jocelyn, Ethan, Sheryl, Runaway Goldfish, Ryan, Chris, Alana, Rachel, Joanna, Lori, Paul, Griff, Matthew, Bobby, Vaibhav, Steven, Joseph, Brandon, Liam, Hall, Jared, Brandon, Christina, Carly, Kazys, Stephen, Katherine, Mohsin Kazmi Takes Pictures, Manny, doeg, Daniel, Tim, Philip, Tim, Lisa, Brodie, Bendix, Irene, holly, Sara, and Margie.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to the Independence Plants Podcast, the official podcast of
0:04.5	IndependencePlants.com. What's up? This is your host Matt, welcome to the show. How's everyone
0:08.8	doing this week? Today I've got something super special for you because it involves a fossil
0:13.2	site that is near and dear to my heart, amazing and in a place where I would never expect
0:17.5	there to be a fossil site. I am talking about the gray fossil site of Eastern Tennessee.
0:23.2	It's a unique area, it's got a cool museum, you should all go check out if you ever find
0:27.2	yourself in that area and it's preserved an era of Earth's history that is in desperate
0:32.4	need of more scrutiny because it's pretty much what was going on in the flora and fauna of North
0:38.3	America right before the glaciers hit. Joining us to talk about this is Dr. Liz Hormson. She's a
0:43.7	paleo botanist who has a particular affinity for platform and function and she's putting it
0:48.1	to great use at the gray fossil site. But first I want to tell you about my friends over at
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