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University of Michigan: Bali-Like Temperatures in Wyoming? Fossils Reveal Tropically Hot North America 95 Million Years Ago
May 11, 2022
ANN ARBOR, Michigan, May 11 (TNSJou) -- The University of Michigan issued the following news release on May 10, 2022:

A new University of Michigan study that used fossil oyster shells as paleothermometers found the shallow sea that covered much of western North America 95 million years ago was as warm as today's tropics.

The study provides the first direct temperature data from that vast mid-latitude sea during the height of the Cretaceous Thermal Maximum, one of t . . .

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