Re: [dinosaur] Dating of dinosaur age during history

Thomas Richard Holtz <[email protected]> Fri, 22 Nov 2019 12:58:21 -0500
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The book A Geologic Time Scale 2004 has charts showing the shifting of time
units from Holmes' 1948 version to 2004, but unfortunately I don't see an
online version of these figures.

On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 12:51 PM Thomas Richard Holtz <[email protected]>
wrote:

> By the way, you did not post the latest!
>
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.stratigraphy.org_ICSchart_ChronostratChart2019-2D05.pdf&d=DwIFaQ&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=Ry_mO4IFaUmGof_Yl9MyZgecRCKHn5g4z1CYJgFW9SI&m=CnLRE2vLUXrOfen5Y4EHeGmKEyp6SSxMMOet0iGjMzI&s=Ut40he5uXIL1XKPSgMzo3w62AeJ88ryA4rB4H3mJXgs&e= 
>
> (just go to stratigraphy.org and click on Chart/Time Scale to get the
> latest)
>
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 9:33 AM Robert Margulski <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> All,
>>
>> I having trouble posting right now, please forward to the list if you
>> deem it proper.
>>
>> Table of age estimates?
>> I would go with the IUGS chart at:
>>
>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.stratigraphy.org_ICSchart_ChronostratChart2018-2D07.pdf&d=DwIFaQ&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=Ry_mO4IFaUmGof_Yl9MyZgecRCKHn5g4z1CYJgFW9SI&m=CnLRE2vLUXrOfen5Y4EHeGmKEyp6SSxMMOet0iGjMzI&s=j6iqgAfUFuhVLYYQ39iNTLbgs1oALWsdRi1ZcZVboUo&e= 
>>
>>
>> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.stratigraphy.org_ICSchart_ChronostratChart2018-2D07.pdf&d=DwMBAg&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=Ry_mO4IFaUmGof_Yl9MyZgecRCKHn5g4z1CYJgFW9SI&m=I072bzIUmWEtZfLh226FF48NyyVTHU3XQIY7v5PFWts&s=-9KgyOiuAS3Ub2nT19N9do3Azn0UBkFMIAgIuvteI3o&e=>How
>> it has improved over time?
>> I'd like to see that myself.
>>
>> Respectfully,
>> Robert
>>
>>
>> At 11:19 AM 11/21/2019, Merald Clark wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>
>> "Be faithful in small things,
>>  because it is in them that your strength lies."
>>      Mother Teresa
>>
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Office: Geology 4106, 8000 Regents Dr., College Park MD 20742

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