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

[David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

> And in the Late Paleocene Tingamarra fauna from Queensland we get a
> whole host of of stuff that is more characteristic of a South American
> (or rather a pre-breakup gondwanan) fauna but subsequently went extinct
> in Oz - notably salamanders,

Wow!!! Today salamanders don't occur south of the Amazon and the Sahara or
so!

> microbiotheriid marsupials,

Really?

> the eutherian Tingamarra etc.

If it is a eutherian. I haven't read about an explicit alternative, though,
just some doubt.

> the very scant Late Paleocene (where
> we do have terrestrial eutherians plus bats)

Er... wait. Paleocene bats? Those are the oldest known ones at all! :-o
(Except for some poorly identifiable fragments from Wyoming, IIRC.)