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Re: Stratigraphy
At 07:16 PM 3/11/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Does anyone know of any publications regarding documented dinosaur material
>found above the KT boundary, I'm not referring to any reworked lag deposit but
>a well defined stratigraphy above the KT boundary?
If you mean "dinosaur", then there is plenty of material. In fact, I had
some roasted chicken last Saturday. (No smiley emoticon needed).
If you mean "non-avian dinosaur", then no: there has yet to be a documented
case of unquestionable Cenozoic non-avian dinosaur. The skeletal material I
have heard of is all isolated bits within channel deposits; the Chinese
footprints are still stratigraphically below some Paleogene mammal fossils
(only 1 m or so below, but in terrestrial sediments, a great amount of time
might be represented by that meter).
Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
Vertebrate Paleontologist Webpage: http://www.geol.umd.edu
Dept. of Geology Email:th81@umail.umd.edu
University of Maryland Phone:301-405-4084
College Park, MD 20742 Fax: 301-314-9661