Tanis: “First Dinosaur Fossil Connected To An Asteroid Strike”
It is not clear if the dinosaur actually died on the day that the asteroid struck. This could be due to the cataclysm. Based on the position of the limb in the dig sediments, the Tanis team believes it most likely did.
It would be quite the discovery if that were true.
Professor Steve Busatte, Edinburgh University, says he is still skeptical – at least for the moment.
He has been an outside consultant to the BBC. He would like to see more peer-reviewed articles and for palaeoscientists with specific expertise to visit the site to provide their independent assessments.
Prof Busatte believes it is possible that animals that died prior to the impact were exhumed and then re-interred so that their deaths seem concurrent.
“Those fish that have the spherules embedded in their gills are a great calling card for the Asteroid. He says that they do have some circumstantial evidence for the claims, but not the rest.
“Is it important that some of these discoveries died the same day as others years ago? It’s rare to find a pterosaur egg containing a baby pterosaur from North America. It’s not all about the asteroid.
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