A Paleobotanist's Discovery of a Layer of Sediment from the Quaternary

question 177

Multiple Choice

A paleobotanist's discovery of a layer of sediment from the Quaternary containing fossilized seed fern seeds would be unexpected because

• A) no such plants ever existed.
• B) seed ferns were extinct by the Quaternary.
• C) all material from the Quaternary should be rock, not sediment.
• D) seed fern seeds are too soft to fossilize.
• E) Quaternary sediments do not have fossils.

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