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Limericks on Metasequoia

Limerick #52768	dawn redwood
By SheilaB Revised: 28 Dec 2008 Defines: dawn redwood Metasequoia Metasequoia glyptostroboides Status: approved Topics: China, Paleontology, Plants: Trees	Quote Me! Link The fossil hounds digging around For remains of old trees in the ground Thought the Metasequoia Extinct, but oh boy, a Dawn redwood, in China, was found. The genus Metasequoia had been known only through fossils before the discovery of Metasequoia glyptostroboides (met-uh-see-KWOY-uh glip-toh-stroh-BOY-deez) in 1944, and its formal identification in 1948.

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