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

On the other hand, a few hundred DC-3s (and C-47s) built in the late 30s and early 40s are still in commercial use, largely cargo. Just saying. 
GSPaul


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From: David Fastovsky <[email protected]>
To: Thomas Richard Holtz <[email protected]>
Cc: Poekilopleuron <[email protected]>; DML <[email protected]>
Sent: Fri, Dec 6, 2019 8:06 am
Subject: 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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