Re: Theories on the extinction of dinosaurs

["Jerry D. Harris" <LOKICORP@compuserve.com>]

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>Correct me if I'm wrong (I'm sure somebody would have anyway :-), but
hadn't 
Primates likely already appeared at the time of the K-T extinctions?<

        As I recall, yes, but this was based on a single tooth of the
otherwise Paleocene primate _Purgatorius_ occuring in the Hell Creek.  That
was years ago, though; someone may have found something else more
recently...

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