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K/T redux

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 April 2016

Norman MacLeod
Norman MacLeod*
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Department of Palaeontology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD N.MacLeod@nhm.ac.uk
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“There are still many dinosaur people who will say that, ‘Yes, there was an impact, but there were hardly any dinosaurs left by then.’ It's possible, but my first class prejudice is not to accept coincidence on that scale” (S. Gould quoted in Glenn 1994: p. 266, referring to the K/T mass extinction).

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Paleobiology , Volume 22 , Issue 3 , Summer 1996, pp. 311 - 317
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