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Subject: Re: mass extinctions
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All of this discussion on mass extinctions has raised a question in my mind,
which I haven't seen discussed much.

Do any of the catastrophist models of mass extinction explain why the
ichthyosaurs became extinct but the sharks didn't?

					Richard Schultz

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