Re: Dinosaurs survived in Antarctica? (Was: Re: "Dinosaurs Died W ithin Hours After Asteroid Hit Earth...")

[Michael Kaib <michael@kaib.org>]

Nick Pharris wrote:

> > Insecta (damage types to leaves)    51    27
> >    
>
> If I read this correctly, there are 51 documented leaf-damage types in
> the late Maastrichtian, of which 27% are gone after the K-Pg boundary.
> A leaf-damage
> type is not necessarily restricted to a single species (it could be
> characteristic of a genus or other higher taxon), so the actual count in
> terms of species could be considerably higher.
>
> And that's completely ignoring the insect species that didn't damage
> leaves!
>
> Nick Pharris
> Department of Linguistics
> University of Michigan
>  
Thank you for the clarification, I didn't recognize this detail . Now I 
remember those articles. The results are not very old. So insects 
suffered hard, as expected.

Michael Kaib
Munich, Bavaria
michael@kaib.org