In any case one would
hardly expect herbivorous dinosaurs to inhabit freshly erupted lava fields
until a reasoable vegetation cover had evolved, again a matter of centuries,
even in a tropical climate.
Is this true? In Hawaii it certainly does not necessarily take that long
for lava flows to re-vegetate. Under the right conditions I think it is
more likely to be decades than centuries (you can see this on the rainier
parts of the big Island); ferns can establish themselves fairly quickly.
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