This dinosaur is suffering its end for the wrong reason, a volcano on a passive margin. | |
"Dinosaur war in the Apennines", Volcanoes or Asteroid impact? are some of the glaring headlines following the blind sampling trip to Gubbio in Italy, undertaken to find out whether any impact evidence could be found above and below the K/Pg boundary. Did these journalists know you cannot find any dinosaurs there? |
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This hadrosaur lower jaw is on display at the Artis Geologisch museum, but here it is when I found it in the Bug Creek area, a little south of Lonnie's bench, exposed some 15 m below the K/T boundary in the overbank "gumbo" clays of the Hell Creek formation |
Dinosaur Page |
These pages present some interesting facts on the dinosaurs I found in the field or elsewhere. Especially data on their demise are presented here. |
Hell Creek |
Bug Creek |
Pyrenees, Spain |