Deanne asks: 

>Anyone know if there is fossil/other evidence of starchy/sugary pulp
>fruits any time before the Jurassic/Cretaceous boundary (150 MYA)?
>
>I have David Dilcher's 2000 PNAS paper
>(http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/97/13/7030.pdf)
>which seems to peg "early angiosperms" sometime in the  Cretaceous and
>only waves at mentioning Jurassic.
>
>I'm checking in on other papers, but I was hoping someone else might
>already have this knowledge handy while I search.

The most commonly accepted date for the origin of the angiosperms (flowering,
and thus fruiting) plants is 140-150 mya. However there are a few people who
argue for a much earlier date. One of these people is Bruce Cornet. A private
web page dedicated to his ideas and data is at:

     http://www.monmouth.com/~bcornet/paleobot.htm

Wirt Atmar
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