Originally Posted by Ark Guy Once again, the fossils represent different biomes and the fauna of a particular area.
If the flood happened today, would you expect to see a tiger buried with a gray squirrel? NOPE.
Quit using straw men! I am not talking about Indian animals and North American animals. I am talking about Colorado animals and Wyoming animals; North Dakota animals and South Dakota animals; Northern South Dakota animals and Southern South Dakota animals; Western Montana and Eastern Montana animals.
You are using a strawman in order to warrant dismissal. You are using a strawman so that you do not have to
think. This many completely different "biomes" would not be able to exist in such close proximity to one another.
I have given you examples of fossil beds showing at least 9 completely different ecosystems all present in the mid-West. Many of these ecosystems include predators (which bone analysis shows to have been endothermic) breaching 40 feet in length and herbivores over 80 feet in length; not the types of things which would occupy small territories.
Among my examples are 2 in Arizona (one is aquatic, feel like explaining that one?), 2 in Alberta (one is aquatic and in the middle of the Rockies, feel like explaining that one?), 2 in Colorado (one has flowering plants, the other don't), one in Kansas (aquatic, feel like explaining that one?), one in Kentucky (aquatic, feel like explaining that one?), 2 in Montana, and 3 in Wyoming. Each example has (very large) fauna completely different from all the others and shows no signs of any of the fauna we see today.
So tell me, why didn't flowering plants live in central Colorado? Why didn't birds live there either? or in Arizona? How did Kansas, Kentucky, parts of Arizona, and the Canadian rockies get all these marine organisms? How did a whole population of 80-90 foot sauropods exist only in central Colorado with nothing but tough, non-flowering vegatation to live on? Why didn't Dromaeosaurs (raptors) invade all these mammal-only zones that they surrounded? How would 2 populations of Tyrannosaurs have been able to coexist no where but Eastern Montana while 3 populations of Allosaurs lived no where but in Colorado while a 3rd Tyrannosaur population lived no where but in Western Montana and in Alberta? All the while with smaller predators competing with them? Your "biome" theory does not make sense and the only way you can defend it is with the strawman examples you display below.
How about a penguin with a parrot? NOPE
These do not live in the same climate zones. Strawman; NEXT
Desert plants with eastern forrest plants? NOPE.
These do not live in the same climate zones. Strawman; NEXT
A trilobyte with a bat? NOPE
These don't even live in the same environment. Strawman; NEXT
An alligator with a road runner? NOPE
These do not live in the same state. Strawman; DONE
Also, with regards to the alligator/road runner strawman, analysis of the plant fossils in most of these locations show that the environments were very similar. The dinosaurian ones were dominated by cycads (wonder where they all went) and ferns with some flowering plants in a few of the beds. The mammal ones are the dominated mostly by flowering plants with almost no hint of ferns or cycads. If the faunas are so similar what kept different dinosaurs from going to the other dino "biomes"? What kept different mammals from going to the other mammal "biomes"? What kept those birds from living in Arizona and Colorado again?
If the fauna lived in the same biome we find them together.
The spaces that these "biomes" exist in are not large enough to supply food for all the animals. Also, where did all this sediment come from that immediately buried all these animals in their "biomes"? How was the Grand Canyon carved if it was buried in sediment? Why weren't birds living in Colorado again?
I thought you already knew that geographical seperation played a role in fossil seperation.
Yes, big oceans and enormous differences in climate do play roles in creating different ecosystems. This situation does not exist in
any of my examples; that's why I picked them. That's why all the bone beds I selected almost all are within, at the very most, 400 miles of another; normally within a 100 or so.
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