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>>Dinosaur tracks are not found down near the
>>base of the Cambrian (the earliest "flood" sediments). They are found
only in
>>Mesozoic-age rocks. Mesozoic rocks in the western U.S. typically have
>>thousands
>>of feet of Paleozoic age rocks beneath them. Those Paleozoic rocks are
>>presumably
>>flood sediments. Those dinosaurs had to leave tracks after MOST of the
flood
>>sediments HAD ALREADY BEEN DEPOSITED. Presumably after the highest
>>mountains
>>had been covered by flood waters leaving the poor dinosaurs no place to
>>walk to in their escape.
>
>Right. And different dinosaurs were deposited in different layers (some
>middle Jurassic, others Upper Cretaceous, etc.) because of differences in
>their success in evading the waters for a time, different strength and
>endurance in swimming ability, different floatational characteristics, etc.
>
Then why are Tyrannosauroids and Allosauroids not deposited together? Being
of similar size and body plan, you would expect that they would have been
very similar in all the considerations you name above, yet they are found in
the fossil record as much as 100 million years apart. Same thing with
regard to Ankylosauroids and Stegosauroids. Why are the Ceratopsians spread
across 50 million years instead of all being found in the same-age
sediments? Same thing with the Hardosaurs. Why is the Andrewsarchus not
found with bear fossils, or Arsinoitherium with rhinoceros fossils, or
Phorusrhacos with ostrich fossils?
It won't work; too many modern and extinct animals are close enough in size
and body design to have been deposited together according tour model, yet
are actually found to be quite far apart.
Kevin L. O'Brien