The survival of megafauna after the end-Pleistocene impact: a lesson from the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary
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2009
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Bogucki Wydawnictwo Naukowe
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Survival of Pleistocene megafauna after the hypothesized impact of a bolide during the latest Pleistocene seems to be partly island-centered, whereas that the survival of dinosaurs and ammonites after the comparable catastrophe at the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary seems to have occurred in a fairly haphazard way within the areas affected by the impact. This poses some new questions about the possible mechanism behind the end-Pleistocene extinction, although it does not disprove an impact as a plausible cause.
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Impact, Survival, Megafauna, Pleistocene, Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary
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Geologos vo. 15 (2), 2009, pp. 129-132.