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Re: Cretaceous Mass Extinction

To: jwoolf@erinet.com
Subject: Re: Cretaceous Mass Extinction
From: dis@gj.net
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 12:55:55 -0700
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Jonathon Woolf wrote:
>
> This reminds me of something I read recently: Keith Rigby claims to have
> found dinosaur fossils associated with Paleocene mammals, _in situ_, not
> reworked, in two different locales.  One is in China, the other is the
> Bug Creek deposits of Montana, North America.

Reworked!
> 
> Does anyone know if this claim has been either confirmed or refuted by
> other workers?  

Eaton, Kirkland, and Doi published a paper some years back on reworked 
Cretaceous fossils in Paleos. Following Rigby and Sloan's arguments 
point by point indicates that there was a great diversity of EOCENE 
dinosaurs in North America.

Jim Kirkland

References:
- Re: Cretaceous Mass Extinction
  - From: "Michael" <tons@ccs.netside.com>
- Re: Cretaceous Mass Extinction
  - From: Jonathon Woolf <jwoolf@erinet.com>

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