• DOI:10.1130/0091-7613(1986)14<868:DFAABT>2.0.CO;2
Corpus ID: 54860261

Detritus feeding as a buffer to extinction at the end of the Cretaceous

@article{Sheehan1986DetritusFA,
  title={Detritus feeding as a buffer to extinction at the end of the Cretaceous},
  author={P. Sheehan and T. Hansen},
  journal={Geology},
  year={1986},
  volume={14},
  pages={868-870}
}

P. Sheehan, T. Hansen

Published 1986

Geology

Geology

At the end of the Cretaceous the principal animals that became extinct, such as dinosaurs, marine animals that lived in the water column, and benthic filter feeders, were in food chains tied directly to living plant matter. Animal groups less affected by extinction, including marine benthic scavengers and deposit feeders, small insectivorous mammals, and members of stream communities, were in food chains dependent on dead plant material. The proposal that an asteroid or comet impact at the end… CONTINUE READING

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