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Volcanism, Impacts, and Mass Extinctions: Causes and Effects
Author(s)
Gerta Keller;
Gerta Keller
Department of Geosciences, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA
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Andrew C. Kerr
Andrew C. Kerr
School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Cardiff University, Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3AT, Wales, UK
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Geological Society of America

Volume
505
Copyright:
© 2014 Geological Society of America
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ISBN print:
9780813725055
Publication date:
September 01, 2014
Book Chapter
What the dinosaur record says about extinction scenarios
Author(s)
J. David Archibald
Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California 92182-4614, USA
J. David Archibald
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Published:September 01, 2014
The record of dinosaurs over the last 10 m.y. of the Cretaceous, as well as surrounding the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary, helps to define extinction scenarios. Although Late Cretaceous dinosaur fossils occur on all present-day continents, only in North America do we find a terrestrial vertebrate fossil record spanning the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary, although promising work may yield comparable records in South America, India, China, and Europe. For the present then, the North American record represents the proxy for our knowledge of dinosaur extinction. Over the last 10 m.y. of the Cretaceous (late Campanian to late Maastrichtian) in the northern part of the...
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Index Terms/Descriptors
- Alberta
- Ankylosauria
- Archosauria
- biostratigraphy
- Campanian
- Canada
- causes
- Cenozoic
- Ceratopsia
- Chicxulub Crater
- Chordata
- cladistics
- climate change
- Cretaceous
- Deccan Traps
- Diapsida
- Dinosaur Provincial Park
- dinosaurs
- epicontinental seas
- extinct taxa
- extinction
- faunal studies
- fossil record
- habitat
- Hadrosauridae
- Hell Creek Formation
- Horseshoe Canyon Formation
- Judith River Formation
- K-T boundary
- Lance Formation
- lower Paleocene
- Maestrichtian
- Mesozoic
- middle Paleocene
- North America
- Ornithischia
- Ornithopoda
- Paleocene
- paleoclimatology
- paleoecology
- paleoenvironment
- Paleogene
- paleogeography
- regression
- Reptilia
- Saurischia
- sea-level changes
- stratigraphic boundary
- Tertiary
- Tetrapoda
- Theropoda
- upper Campanian
- Upper Cretaceous
- Vertebrata
- volcanism
- Western Canada
- Western Interior
- Pachycephalosauria
- Appalachia
- Cannonball Sea
- Pierre Seaway
- Laramidia
- Brazos River Embayment
- Euomithopoda
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