Extinction at the end of the cretaceous had to be from a large number of species specific causes from the impactors (or other causational accumulative) effects. I hadn't thought about the temperature thing (TSD) for a while but I am certain that it would have effected some species over the short term.
But is there any evidence of turtle, lizzard and crocs diversity drop during KT-extinction?
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Roberto Takata