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Exceptional continental record of biotic recovery after the Cretaceous–Paleogene mass extinction

Lyson, T. R., Miller, I. M., Bercovici, A. D., Weissenburger, K., Fuentes, A. J., Clyde, W. C., Hagadorn, J. W., Butrim, M. J., Johnson, K. R., Fleming, R. F., Barclay, R. S., Maccracken, S. A., Lloyd, B., Wilson, G. P., Krause, D. W., Chester, S. G. B.·2019·Science
DOI 10.1126/science.aay2268
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Terrestrial record of recovery: The extinction that occurred at the end of the Cretaceous period is best known as the end of the nonavian dinosaurs. In theory, this paved the way for the expansion of mammals as well as other taxa, including plants. However, there are very few direct records of loss and recovery of biotic diversity across this event. Lyson et al. describe a new record from the Cretaceous-Paleogene in Colorado that includes unusually complete vertebrate and plant fossils that describe this event in detail, including the recovery and expansion of mammalian body size and increasing plant and animal biotic diversity within the first million years. Science , this issue p. 977

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Lyson, T. R., Miller, I. M., Bercovici, A. D., Weissenburger, K., Fuentes, A. J., Clyde, W. C., Hagadorn, J. W., Butrim, M. J., Johnson, K. R., Fleming, R. F., Barclay, R. S., Maccracken, S. A., Lloyd, B., Wilson, G. P., Krause, D. W., & Chester, S. G. B.
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  • Denver Museum of Nature &amp; Science, 2001 Colorado Boulevard, Denver, CO 80205, USA.
  • Department of Earth Sciences, University of New Hampshire, 56 College Road, Durham, NH 03824, USA.
  • Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Wesleyan University, Exley Science Center 333, Middletown, CT 06459, USA.
  • National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, 10th Street and Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20560, USA.
  • Department of Geology, Colorado College, 14 E. Cache La Poudre Street, Colorado Springs, CO 80903, USA.
  • Department of Biology, University of Washington, 251 Life Sciences Building, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
  • Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, 2900 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11210, USA.
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Science
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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Published
2019-11-22
Volume
366
Issue
6468
Pages
977-983
ISSN
  • 0036-8075
  • 1095-9203
DOI
10.1126/science.aay2268
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192
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en

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Lyson, T. R., Miller, I. M., Bercovici, A. D., Weissenburger, K., Fuentes, A. J., Clyde, W. C., Hagadorn, J. W., Butrim, M. J., Johnson, K. R., Fleming, R. F., Barclay, R. S., Maccracken, S. A., Lloyd, B., Wilson, G. P., Krause, D. W., & Chester, S. G. B. (2019). Exceptional continental record of biotic recovery after the Cretaceous–Paleogene mass extinction. Science. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aay2268