• DOI:10.1126/science.232.4750.629
Corpus ID: 31638639

Gradual Dinosaur Extinction and Simultaneous Ungulate Radiation in the Hell Creek Formation

@article{Sloan1986GradualDE,
  title={Gradual Dinosaur Extinction and Simultaneous Ungulate Radiation in the Hell Creek Formation},
  author={R. Sloan and J. Rigby and L. V. Van Valen and D. Gabriel},
  journal={Science},
  year={1986},
  volume={232},
  pages={629 - 633}
}

R. Sloan, J. Rigby, +1 author D. Gabriel

Published 1986

Geology, Medicine

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Dinosaur extinction in Montana, Alberta, and Wyoming was a gradual process that began 7 million years before the end of the Cretaceous and accelerated rapidly in the final 0.3 million years of the Cretaceous, during the interval of apparent competition from rapidly evolving immigrating ungulates. This interval involves rapid reduction in both diversity and population density of dinosaurs. The last dinosaurs known are from a channel that contains teeth of Mantuan mammals, seven species of… CONTINUE READING

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