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Re: K/T Boundary and Sedimentology
At 16:03 2000-03-24 EST, Dinogeorge@aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 3/24/00 4:01:02 PM EST, dinogami@hotmail.com writes:
>
><< Moral: distance between a fossil and a boundary is meaningless unless
> the sedimentological factor is accounted for. >>
>
>Of course. The only time sedimentology doesn't matter is when the distance
>between the highest-known fossil and the boundary is >zero<. This is what
>we're looking for.
>
According to Sankar Chatterjee titanosaurs occur in the Anjar section in
Gujarat right up to the iridium spike, but not above it (The Rise of Birds,
p. 246). Unfortunately I don't think that this has been properly published
yet.