Did the world's best-preserved dinosaurs really die in 'Pompeii-type' events? (China)

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Did the world's best-preserved dinosaurs really die in 'Pompeii-type' events?

by Columbia Climate School, PhysOrg, November 4, 2024

 

The paywalled paper is:

 

MacLennan, S.A., Sha, J., Olsen, P.E., Kinney, S.T., Chang, C., Fang, Y., Liu, J.,

Slibeck, B.B., Chen, E. and Schoene, B., 2024. Extremely rapid, yet

noncatastrophic, preservation of the flattened-feathered and 3D dinosaurs

of the Early Cretaceous of China. Proceedings of the National Academy of

Sciences, 121(47), p.e2322875121.

 

A related article is:

 

The Great Chinese Dinosaur Boom

A gold rush of fossil-finding is turning China into the new epicenter of paleontology

Richard Conniff, Smithsonian Magazine, May 2018.

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.