RE: Percentage of extinct species during the K-T event

["Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <tholtz@umd.edu>]

All these numbers have changed. But really, you need to look these up yourself 
if possible, but there isn't a single synthesis
available now.

Scholar.google.com is everyone's friend.

Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu [mailto:owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu] On Behalf Of 
> Poekilopleuron
> Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2015 4:11 AM
> To: dinosaur@usc.edu
> Subject: Percentage of extinct species during the K-T event
> 
> 
> Good day,
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> In David M. Raup?s book Extinction: Bad Genes or Bad Luck? from 1991 there?s 
> a statistics about how many species of various
tetrapod
> groups perished during the K-T. I would be very interested knowing how much 
> this percentage changed during next 25 years since
> then? There is much more fossils known from this crucial time after all. 
> Raup?s values, taken from William Clemens and relevant
for
> Hell Creek formation (?) follow (name ? number before the K -T ? number after 
> the K-T ? percentage of survivors):
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> Chondrichthyes  5  3  60%
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> Ostheichthyes  13  5  38%
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> Amphibians  12  4  33%
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> Chelonia  18  2  11%
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> Eosuchia  1  0  0%
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> Crocodilia  4  1?  25%?
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> Eolacertilia  1  1  100%
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> Lacertilia  15  4  27%
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> Serpentes  2  0  0%
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> Saurischia  8  8  100%
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> Ornithischia 14  14  100%
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> Pterosauria  ?  ?  100%
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> Avians  ?  ?  ?%
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> Microtuberculata  11  4  36%
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> Marsupialia  4  3  75%
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> Placentalia  9  1  11%
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> Total numbers:  117  50  43%
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> Are we still proportionally in the same numbers? Thank you in advance, Tom =