A critique of Thompson and Ramírez-Barahona (2023) or: how I learned to stop worrying and love the fossil record.

A recent study published in by Thompson and Ramírez-Barahona (2023) argued that, according to analyses of diversification on two massive molecular phylogenies comprising thousands of species, there is no evidence that angiosperms (i.e. flowering plants) were affected by the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction.