Re: [dinosaur] Would non-avian dinosaur survive through the whole Cenozoic?

["David Marjanovic" <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

Gesendet:ÂMittwoch, 04. Dezember 2019 um 16:51 Uhr
Von:Â"Poekilopleuron" <dinosaurtom2015@seznam.cz>

> in his book "Dinosaurs Rediscovered", professor Mike Benton states that even 
> if non-avian dinosaurs survived the K-Pg event, they would probably 
> eventually perish some 50 or 40 million years ago (due to climatic changes 
> and/or other perturbations). This is because of their limited ability to 
> evolve new species in the last millions of years of the Cretaceous.

There is no such thing as an inherent "ability to evolve new species" that 
doesn't depend on the environment, which changes.

The idea that few new species _did_ evolve in the last few million years of the 
Cretaceous has long been abandoned: it was based simply on the fact that the 
Campanian record of North America is better than the Maastrichtian record of 
North America.