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Can you help me identify this mammal from the Pleistocene of Yucatán, Mexico?
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I found this mammal material, it is from the Pleistocene in a cave in Yucatán, Mexico. Can you help me identify please? -
Breakup of a long-period comet as the origin of the dinosaur extinction
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Fossil News
Astronomers: A comet fragment, not an asteroid, killed off the dinosaurs Jupiter's gravity pushed comet toward Sun; comet was ripped apart by tidal forces. Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, February 15, 2021 https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/02/astronomers-a-comet-fragment-not-an-asteroid-killed-off-the-dinosaurs/ The open access paper is: Siraj, A. and Loeb, A., Breakup of a Long-Period Comet as the Origin of the Dinosaur Extinction. Scientific Reports volume 11, Article number: 3803 (2021) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-82320-2 https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/SLD.pdf Keep warm and safe out there Paul H.- 1 reply
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Thought this fit better here than general fossil discussion but I thought it would be fun if we talked about what it was like on that day 66 million years ago. You know it has to be a great day. What was the weather like? The day of the year? The time of day? What the dinos were doing? What on Earth was going on?
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Life and death in the Chicxulub impact crater: A record of Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Fossil News
The open access paper is: Smith, V., Warny, S., Grice, K., Schaefer, B., Whalen, M.T., Vellekoop, J., Chenot, E., Gulick, S.P., Arenillas, I., Arz, J.A. and Bauersachs, T., 2020. Life and death in the Chicxulub impact crater: A record of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. Climate of the Past Discussions, pp.1-17. Related open access papers are: Smith, V., Warny, S., Jarzen, D.M., Demchuk, T., Vajda, V. and Expedition 364 Science Party, 2020. Palaeocene–Eocene miospores from the Chicxulub impact crater, Mexico. Part 1: spores and gymnosperm pollen. Palynology, 44(3), pp.473-487 Smith, V., Warny, S., Jarzen, D.M., Demchuk, T., Vajda, V. and Gulick, S.P., 2020. Paleocene–Eocene palynomorphs from the Chicxulub impact crater, Mexico. Part 2: angiosperm pollen. Palynology, pp.1-31. More papers of Dr. Vann Smith More papers Sophie Warny Yours, Paul H.-
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