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Sherlock Holmes And Long Term Evolutionary Patterns In Dinosaur Body Size
Source info:
| Author: | Suvrat Kher |
|---|---|
| Date: | 2014-05-15 17:38:00 |
| Blog: | Reporting on a Revolution  |
| URL: | http://suvratk.blogspot.com/2014/05/sherlock-holmes-and-long-term.html |
Summary:
This week's (in Pune, India) Sherlock Holmes Elementary featured a murder mystery involving a smuggled dinosaur fossil. The fossil is believed by some palaeontologists to be entombed in rocks of the earliest Paleocene, making that dinosaur a survivor of the end Cretaceous mass extinction. Other palaeontologists strongly disagree with this survivor fauna scenario, which the drama turns into aContent analysis:
Stratigraphic context:
| Recognized stratigraphic terms [n]: | Paleocene [1] Cretaceous [1] |
|---|---|
| Agenames chronostratigraphy [rating]: | Paleocene [0.1] Paleogene [0.1] Cretaceous [0.1] Cenozoic [0.1] Mesozoic [0.1] Phanerozoic [0.5] |
Geographic context:
| Location | Country | Latitude | Longitude |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pune | IN | 18.5361 | 73.8522 |
Keywords:
Cretaceous mass extinction, Dinosaur Body Size, dinosaur fossil, dinosaurs, drama, earliest Paleocene, India, Long Term Evolutionary, murder mystery, palaeontologists, Patterns, Pune, rocks, Sherlock Holmes Elementary, survivor fauna scenario
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