Dinosaur abundance was not declining in a "3 m gap" at the top of the Hell Creek Formation, Montana and North Dakota

Geology

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 523-526

  Sheehan, Peter M ^a   Fastovsky, David E ^b   Barreto, Claudia ^c   Hoffmann, Raymond G ^d  

^a MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^d MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Asteroid; Dinosaur; Extinction; Hell Creek Formation; K T

Indexed keywords

BOLIDE IMPACT; CRETACEOUS PERIOD; DINOSAUR; DINOSAUR FOSSILS; HELL CREEK FORMATION; K-T; MONTANA; NORTH DAKOTA; STRATIGRAPHIC INTERVALS;

STRATIGRAPHY;

ABUNDANCE; ASTEROID; BOLIDE; CRETACEOUS; DATA ACQUISITION; DINOSAUR; EXTINCTION; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE;

GREAT PLAINS; MONTANA; NORTH DAKOTA; UNITED STATES;

DINOSAURIA;

EID: 0034431651     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(2000)28<523:DAWNDI>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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