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

Peter Dodson had a nice way of saying it; it sent something like this:

"Although you might see a Model T driving down the street, nobody would
claim that the car is a meaningful  part of the current automotive
ecosystem."

On Fri, Dec 6, 2019 at 7:47 AM Thomas Richard Holtz <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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