Re: [dinosaur] Paleocene non-avian dinosaurs a reality

Greetings,

No one seriously considered that every last non-avian dinosaur died in the
same exact day as the impact, so we've always expected some survivorship
into the earliest part of the Paleocene.

On Fri, Dec 6, 2019 at 4:39 AM Poekilopleuron <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Good day,
>
> if I understand it correctly, given the fantastic finds in Tanis locality,
> we can now assume that non-avian dinosaurs were still living at the time of
> Chicxulub impact and hence there were definitely paleocene dinosaurs. Their
> demise was relatively fast, but still there were surely living non-avian
> dinosaur in the days, weeks and perhaps months or years after the impact.
> So "paleocene (non-avian) dinosaurs" is now a proven fact, isn´t it? Thank
> you for your thoughts, Tom
>


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