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Dinosaur biodiversity declined well before the asteroid impact, influenced by ecological and environmental pressures

The question why non-avian dinosaurs went extinct 66 million years ago (Ma) remains unresolved because of the coarseness of the fossil record. A sudden extinction caused by an asteroid is the most accepted hypothesis but it is debated whether dinosaurs were in decline or not before the impact. We an...

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Autores principales: Condamine, Fabien L., Guinot, Guillaume, Benton, Michael J., Currie, Philip J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8242047/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34188028
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23754-0