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Maniraptoran Dinosaurs Show No Decline In Disparity Before Mass Extinction

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Author: Suvrat Kher
Date: 2016-04-26 18:03:00
Blog: Reporting on a Revolution
URL: http://suvratk.blogspot.com/2016/04/maniraptoran-dinosaurs-show-no-decline.html

Summary:

Its hard to unravel and unpack complex phenomenon like patterns of faunal turnover during mass  extinctions. The methods chosen, the materials (fossils) available for study and the granularity of the study influences the results. My last post was about a modeling study that concluded that for 40 million years before the mass extinction,  extinction rates exceeded the evolution of new species in

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birds, complex phenomenon, Decline In Disparity, extinction rates, faunal turnover, fossils, granularity, hard, Maniraptoran Dinosaurs, mass extinction, mass  extinctions, materials, methods, modeling study, new species, patterns, post, results

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