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Diplodocus, Long Thought Exclusively American, Turns Up in Spain

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hackyhacky · 1789689292 · focus · HN ↗
> Diplodocus, Long Thought Exclusively American, Turns Up in Spain
Another example of quality American production moving overseas. Globalization will be the end of us
1. shagie · 1789700409 · focus · HN ↗
  Reunite Pangea! <a href="https://thepangeamap.com" rel="nofollow">https://thepangeamap.com (you can put Diplodocus on the timeline and see a projection of what the map was then)
  1. InitialLastName · 1789740005 · focus · HN ↗
    What's wild about this is that it makes really obvious how limited our perspective on dinosaur biodiversity is. Our best view on the best-known dinosaurs comes from a few places that were really good for finding fossils from specific eras.
    shagie · 1789785458 · focus · HN ↗
    Yea... I mean... yea.
    <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stratigraphic_units_with_dinosaur_body_fossils" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stratigraphic_units_wi...
    And then you're using a bit of the west and Great Plains (Utah, Colorado, Montana, North Dakota) for all the different species that live in North America.
    And beyond that, the other dimension. Diplodocus was around for 10 million years give or take... 10 million years before the Anthropocene and you were in the Miocene <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Miocene_mammals_of_North_America" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Miocene_mammals_of_No...
    We've only got snapshots of them in time - often from some disaster which aided in the formation of fossils... but all that other time, species evolved and went extinct without leaving a single identifiable fossil.
    (One of my families great roadtrips of my youth was out to Dinosaur National Monument during a sibling's dinosaur phase... and it was neat. I was there on a road trip of my own in '09, but it hadn't reopened yet... someday I'll get back out there again.)

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