Mammals Inherit the Earth

Mammals Inherit the Earth

Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology via YouTube Direct link

The Ups and Downs of the last 600 m.y.

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The Ups and Downs of the last 600 m.y.

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Mammals Inherit the Earth

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  1. 1 Intro
  2. 2 The Ups and Downs of the last 600 m.y.
  3. 3 Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) mass extinction
  4. 4 K-Pg extraterrestrial impact
  5. 5 K-Pg Deccan volcanism Mahabaleshwar, India
  6. 6 K-Pg extinction hypotheses
  7. 7 Cretaceous terrestrial vertebrate localities
  8. 8 Paleocene terrestrial vertebrate localities
  9. 9 The Hell Creek Study System
  10. 10 Coastal lowland setting
  11. 11 K-Pg boundary layer (2 cm thick)
  12. 12 Temporal framework
  13. 13 Dinosaur icons
  14. 14 Prospect & surface collect
  15. 15 Place fossil locs in stratigraphic context
  16. 16 Record geology & collect fossiliferous sediment
  17. 17 Screen-wash fossiliferous sediment
  18. 18 New fossils show some ecological diversification
  19. 19 K-Pg: A watershed event for mammals taxonomic richness
  20. 20 K-Pg mammals of northeastern MT
  21. 21 Cranium-NDGS 431
  22. 22 Mammalian fossil sampling
  23. 23 The anatomy of the K-Pg mass extinction
  24. 24 Endangered species 3,600 Black rhinos
  25. 25 Ecological disturbance
  26. 26 or limping to the finish line ✓ Declining faunal evenness and relative abundances of metatherians implies ecological instability during the last 500 k.y of the Cretaceous
  27. 27 Who were the winners & losers?
  28. 28 Methodological Premise
  29. 29 Homology-free dental complexity
  30. 30 Modern Study Carnivorans & Rodents
  31. 31 Dental complexity across the K-Pg

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