3. An area where a particular plant has thrived for 50 million years suffers a 100-year-long drought. What evidence of the drought might be found in the fossil
record?
A. Fossils of the plant are abundant right up until the present day.
B. Fossils of the plant appear in recent rock layers but not in older ones.
C. Fossils of the plant are present in older rocks but disappear at a point in the
fossil record
D. It is impossible for the fossil record to show evidence of the drought.