RE: Starkov's theory and extinction

[Tommy Tyrberg <tommy.tyrberg@norrkoping.mail.telia.com>]

>A devastating, global radiation of T-rex is not a very far-fetched 
>scenario.  The ability of ungulates to enter southern South America by the 
>Paleocene, and the migration of marsupials even farther, to Antarctica and 
>Australia, attests to a high degree of "interconnectedness" of landmasses 
>around K-T time.  T-rex could also have spread far, and fast, with 
>devastating results. 

It could, however, hardly have spread to India, Madagascar, New Zealand and
some of the European Islands which had no land connections at the end of
the Cretaceous and which all have late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) dinosaur
fossils. 


Tommy Tyrberg