Re: [dinosaur] Dating of dinosaur age during history

Merald Clark <[email protected]> Thu, 21 Nov 2019 11:19:13 -0500
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OMG Poekilopleuron, thank you!
I've been wondering about this lately myself!
Yours,
Merald Clark

On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 11:26 AM Poekilopleuron <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Good day,
>
> I seem to recall that at the beginning of the 20th Century it was believed
> that Tyrannosaurus was only about 3 to 8 million years old (and
> Protoceratops about 13 million years after 1920). Is there any table of age
> estimates for dinosaurs and how it was improved during the time? E. g. how
> K-Pg boundary was dated from the 19th Century up to modern estimates of
> 66.0 mya. I have seen that around 1950 it was thought to be some 75 to 70
> million years ago? Thank you in advance! Tom
>