Paleocene dinosaurs (Ref.s)

["Ken Kinman" <kinman@hotmail.com>]

John and George,
     Even if these eggshells are not reworked (which would probably not be 
easily proven), if these are indeed "theropod" eggshells, why couldn't they 
be the eggs of birds (i.e. avian theropod survivors)?   Are they going by 
estimated size of the eggs or by the shell microstructure?
              ------Ken Kinman
P.S.    And the same problems would go for "bones" in the earliest 
Paleocene.  There are no articulated remains of any non-avian dinosaurs 
about the K-T, and those who claim they survived apparently only have little 
bits and scraps (as afar as I know).  Again reworking or confusing bird bone 
scraps with non-avian theropod scraps are distinct probabilities.
               -----Ken Kinman
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> In a message dated 10/13/01 9:33:33 PM EST, jbois@umd5.umd.edu writes:
>
> << They're saying that these Ir peaks are before the K/T.  Yes, they have
>  dinosaurs above them.  More from the abstract: "(these deposits) have
>  revealed a profuse occurence of theropod eggshell fragments...in beds
>  overlying the iridium-enriched levels."  They detail evidence for why
>  these are not reworked (I'm not able to evaluate this). >>
>
> Eggshell, schmeggshell. I want >bones<. Good bones. Skeletons.


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