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DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-08997-2
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- Imperial College London Janet Watson Departmental PhD Scholarship
- Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship [ECF-2014-662]
- Royal Society University Research Fellowship [UF160216]
- NERC, Cretaceous-Paleocene-Eocene: Exploring Climate and Climate Sensitivity [NE/K014757/1]
- Imperial College London President's PhD Scholarship
- NERC [NE/K014757/1] Funding Source: UKRI
In the lead-up to the Cretaceous/Paleogene mass extinction, dinosaur diversity is argued to have been either in long-term decline, or thriving until their sudden demise. The latest Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian [83-66 Ma]) of North America provides the best record to address this debate, but even here diversity reconstructions are biased by uneven sampling. Here we combine fossil occurrences with climatic and environmental modelling to quantify latest Cretaceous North American dinosaur habitat. Ecological niche modelling shows a Campanian-to-Maastrichtian habitability decrease in areas with present-day rock-outcrop. However, a continent-wide projection demonstrates habitat stability, or even a Campanian-to-Maastrichtian increase, that is not preserved. This reduction of the spatial sampling window resulted from formation of the proto-Rocky Mountains and sea-level regression. We suggest that Maastrichtian North American dinosaur diversity is therefore likely to be underestimated, with the apparent decline a product of sampling bias, and not due to a climatically-driven decrease in habitability as previously hypothesised.
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