(November 12, 2014 at 7:31 am)Drich Wrote: Sorey, I left a reference out.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baleen_whale
The Washington post identifies the baleen whale. The reference above tells us the baleen whale first appeared in the Oligocene period. (33 to 23 million years ago.) thats the earliest they could have been there, (the sea sloth the found reels the number back to just one or two million years ago, the post dates the whales with in a few thousand years of the sloths.) while again the whole region was a desert from the Triassic period 2 or 3 hundred million year before.
You also misread your data regarding the desert; it says that some sections of it remained persistently arid, not all. This accounts for the fact that the fossilized animals were beached on shore portions of the landmass, rather than sinking. Your problem only exists because you accidentally skipped a word in your source.
Did you really think that if the timing was that out of whack, that the scientists involved wouldn't have noticed?
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