Maastrichtian and Kimmeridgian - Nature of the Limit?

T. rex

Cretaceous Period, Maastrichtian

Triceratops

Cretaceous period, Maastrichtian

Allosaurus

Late Jurassic period, Kimmeridgian

Stegosaurus

Late Jurassic period, Kimmeridgian

We see traces of interaction between T. rex and Triceratops, Allosaurus and Stegosaurus. If they lived at the same time, why don’t we see traces of interaction between T. rex and Stegosaurus or Allosaurus and Triceratops?

There were some intelligent and agile creatures among dinosaurs. Why aren’t they as high as most of mammals in the fossil record?

A reader from Ukraine, B.V.

Pre-Flood predatory dinosaur interactions and the fossil record
Published: 22 February 2020 (GMT+10) / Feedback
https://creation.com/dinosaur-interactions

What is the response by Philip Bell?

Prior to the Noahic Flood, there would also have been an abundance of habitat for a wealth of animals of all sorts. ... Just as today, where apex predators normally keep out of each other’s way (e.g. the many species of Felidae [cats]) and generally avoid violent interactions, the pre-Flood land areas were certainly large enough for the same sort of thing to have occurred.

Thank you!

In other words, at least in principle, the Geologic column does not exist when it comes to palaeontology.

In any place, there will be a local lithological column, in marine environments there may also be a palaeontological one, like whales or plesiosaurs are higher up than trilobites.

But, for reason mentioned by Philip Bell, Plesiosaurs and Whales neither interact, nor come vertically.

And you will hardly get T. Rex over Allosaurus or Triceratops over Stegosaurus either. Any more than interacting.

If evolution is true, this is pretty remarkable. On the evoloutionary view, at least some place biota from Jurassic would accidentally be preserved below biota from Cretaceous or Tertiary or above biota from Triassic or Palaeozoic. And not as in Trilobites being below Whales or Plesiosaurs, since there is a perfectly comprehensible Flood related explanation for that, but as in Whales being above Plesiosaurs, which we do not actually find to the best of my knowledge.

I did a lot of checking up on this back in 2013 to 2015. This somewhat later post links back to all the posts in the series:

Creation vs. Evolution : Archaeology vs Vertabrate Palaeontology in Geology
https://creavsevolu.blogspot.com/2016/06/archaeology-vs-vertabrate-palaeontology.html

Which was ignored at the time, by CMI, from the perspective of still supporting the meme "Geological column follows a general Flood order, but with many exceptions" or "mammals came higher than T. Rex, because T. Rex had a brain like a walnut" - well, we don't have all that many places with mammals above or Dimetrodentes below a T. Rex. Or even any that I know of.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Bpi, Georges Pompidou
St. Paterius of Brixen
21.II.2020

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