Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Dinosaurier am Rande des Kollaps — und dann?

  • Chapter
Dinosaurierforscher

  • 41 Accesses

Zusammenfassung

In diesem Kinderlied, das meine siebenjährige Tochter besonders gerne hört, wird eigentlich die gesamte Diskussion um das Aussterben der Dinosaurier zusammengefaßt. Art und Form dieser Diskussion sind selbstverständlich variabel. Doch werden in dem Maße, wie man nach den Mechanismen dieses Massensterbens forscht, immer wieder neue Theorien in atemberaubendem Tempo hervorgezaubert. Alle sind weitaus länger und detaillierter als das obige Lied, doch sind viele genauso spekulativ und unsicher. Das nun folgende Resümee der aktuellen Theorien und Überlegungen zum Tod der Dinosaurier ist von seiner Länge her irgendwo zwischen The Bang Gang und den zahlreichen Monographien zu diesem Thema angesiedelt, doch kann man mit beiden Extremen letzten Endes nur mutmaßliche Modelle vorstellen. Demnach gibt es keinen eindeutigen, «todsicheren» Anlaß, warum den Sauriern damals der Garaus gemacht wurde. Vermutlich waren eine Klimaverschlechterung, Vulkanausbrüche und der Einschlag eines Kometen gemeinsam daran schuld, daß sie vom Erdboden verschwanden.

Die Urknall-Gang

Was ist geschehen, was war nur los?

Die Saurier sind tot!

Was ist geschehen, was war nur los?

Los, denk mal nach, warum!

Zu heiß? Zu kalt?

Wurd’s Wetter schlecht?

Kein Sonnenlicht, kein Futter mehr?

Oder fehlten Pelz und Federn?

Was ist geschehen, was war nur los?

Theorien gibt es massenhaft.

Was ist geschehen, was war nur los?

Doch eigentlich weiß man nichts.

The Bang Gang aus: Wee Sing Dinosaurs (Originaltext von Susan Nipp)

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution
Chapter
USD 29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD 69.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

Preview

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Literatur

Interviews

  • Dr. Robert Bakker (Boulder, Colorado), Dr. William Clemens (University of California/Berkeley), Dr. Peter Dodson (University of Pennsylvania), Dr. Leo Hickey (Yale University), Dr. Kirk Johnson (Denver Museum of Natural History), Dr. Paul Olsen (Lamont Doherty Laboratories), Dr. Kevin Padian (University of California), Dr. Keith Rigby jun. (Notre Dame University), Dr. Jack Wolfe (United States Geological Survey, Denver, Colorado).

    Google Scholar 

Veröffentlichungen

  • Alvarez, Luis, Walter Alvarez, Frank Asaro und Helen Michel: Extraterrestrial Cause for the Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction. Science 208, 1095–1108 (1980).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Alvarez, Walter, Erle G. Kauffman, F. Surlyk, L. W. Alvarez, Frank Asaro und Helen Michel: Impact Theory of Mass Extinctions and the Invertebrate Fossil Record. Science 223, 1135–1141 (1984).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Alvarez, Walter und Frank Asaro: An Extraterrestrial Impact. Scientific American (Oktober 1990).

    Google Scholar 

  • Archibald, J. D.: Stepwise and Non-Catastrophic Extinctions in the Western Interior of North America: Testing Observations in the Context of an Historical Science. Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France 150, 45–52 (1987).

    Google Scholar 

  • Archibald, J. D., R. F. Butler, E. H. Lindsay, William A. Clemens und Lowell Dingus: Upper Cretaceous-Paleocene Bio stratigraphy and Magnetostratigraphy, Hell Creek and Tullock Formations, Northeastern Montana. Geology 10 (1982).

    Google Scholar 

  • Argast, S., James Farlow, R. M. Gäbet und D. L. Brinkman: Transport-Induced Abrasion of Fossil Reptilian Teeth: Implications for the Existence of Tertiary Dinosaurs in the Hell Creek Formation, Montana. Geology 15, 927–930 (1987).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Bakker, Robert T.: Dinosaur Heresies. William Morrow, New York (1986).

    Google Scholar 

  • Basu, Asish, Sankar Chatterjee und Dhirah Rudra: Shock Metamorphism in Quartz Grains at the Base of the Deccan Traps: Evidence for Impact-Triggered Flood Basalt Volcanism at the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary. Abstract, 1988 Fall Meeting, American Geophysical Union, San Francisco (1988).

    Google Scholar 

  • Bates, Robin: Drehbuch für Programm 4, Dinosaurier, WHYY Television, Philadelphia, das 1992 gesendet wurde.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bohor, Bruce F., E. E. Ford, P. J. Modreski und D. M. Triplehorn: Mineralogic Evidence for an Impact Event at the Cretaceous-Tertiary Dinosaur Extinction. Science 234, 867–869 (1984).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Buffetaut, Eric, Jean-Jacques Jaeger und Jean-Michel Mazin: Extinctions in Vertebrate History. Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France 150 (1987).

    Google Scholar 

  • Byars, Carlos: Scientists Propose Differing Meteor Impact Sites. Houston Chronicle (vom 16. März 1990).

    Google Scholar 

  • Carpenter, Kenneth, und Breithaupt, Brent: Latest Cretaceous Occurence of Nodosaurid Ankylosaurs (Dinosauria, Ornithischia) in Western North America and the Gradual Extinction of the Dinosaurs. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 6, 251–257 (1986).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Chandler, David L.: What Killed Dinosaurs? Both Sides May Be Right. Boston Globe (vom 2. Mai 1988).

    Google Scholar 

  • — Caribbean Crater Supports Theory of Dinosaur Deaths. Boston Globe (vom 18. Mai 1990).

    Google Scholar 

  • Fossils Point To Day Summer Turned To Winter, 66 Million B. C. Boston Globe (vom 1. August 1991).

    Google Scholar 

  • Last Chapter of Dinosaur Mystery? Boston Globe (vom 28. Oktober 1991).

    Google Scholar 

  • Chatterjee, Sankar: A Possible K-T Impact site at the India-Seychelles Boundary. Abstract, Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, XXI, 1990.

    Google Scholar 

  • Clemens, Elisabeth S.: Of Asteroids and Dinosaurs: The Role of the Press in the Shaping of Scientific Debate. Social Studies of Science (London) 16 (1986).

    Google Scholar 

  • Clemens, William A.: Evolution of the Terrestrial Vertebrate Fauna During the Cretaceous-Tertiary Transition. Aus D. K. Elliott (Hrsg.): Dynamics of Extinction. John Wiley, New York (1986), 63–86.

    Google Scholar 

  • Courtillot, Vincent E.: A Volcanic Eruption. Scientific American (Oktober 1990).

    Google Scholar 

  • Dingus, Lowell: Effects of Stratigraphic Completeness on Interpretations of Extinction Rates Across the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary. Journal of Paleontology 58 (1984).

    Google Scholar 

  • Dodson, Peter und Leonid P. Tatarinov: Dinosaur Extinction. Aus David Weishampel, Peter Dodson und Halszka Osmolska (Hrsg.): The Dinosauria. University of California Press, Berkeley (1990), 55–62.

    Google Scholar 

  • Dricks, Victor: Dinosaurs ‘Broiled’ UOFA Scientists Say. The Phoenix Gazette (vom 20. Januar 1990).

    Google Scholar 

  • Erben, H. K., J. Hoefs und K. H. Wedepohl: Paleobiological and Isotopic Studies of Eggshells from a Declining Dinosaur Species. Paleobiology 5, 380–414 (1979).

    Google Scholar 

  • Farlow, James O. und D. L. Brinkman: Serration Coarseness and Patterns of Wear of Theropod Dinosaur Teeth. Abstract, 21st Annual Meeting, South-Central Section, Geological Society of America, Waco, Texas (1987).

    Google Scholar 

  • Fassett, James E.: Dinosaurs in the San Juan Basin, New Mexico, May Have Survived the Event That Resulted in Creation of an Iridium-Enriched Zone Near the Cretaceous/Tertiary Boundary. Geological Society of America Special Paper 190 (1982).

    Google Scholar 

  • Fassett, James E., Spencer G. Lucas und Michael F. O’Neill: Dinosaurs, Pollen and Spores and the Age of the Ojo Alamo Sandstone, San Juan Basin, New Mexico. Geological Society of America Special Paper 209 (1987).

    Google Scholar 

  • Gee, Henry, und Rory Howlett: Helping with Inquiries. Nature 336 (vom 15. Dezember 1988).

    Google Scholar 

  • Giffin, Emily B., Diane L. Gabriel und Rolf E. Johnson: A New Pachycephalosaurid Skull from the Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation of Montana. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 7, 398–407 (1987).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Global Fire is Linked to Dinosaur’s Demise. New York Times (vom 30. August 1988).

    Google Scholar 

  • Gore, Rick: Extinctions. National Geographic 175, 662–699 (1989).

    Google Scholar 

  • Hallam, Anthony: End-Cretaceous Mass Extinction Event: Argument for Terrestrial Causation. Science 238, 1232–1244 (1987). Veröffentlichungen zum Thema Massensterben gibt es noch und noch (Tendenz: zunehmend); mit diesem Artikel zog Hallam jedoch seinerzeit ein komplettes Resümee der damaligen aktuellen Literatur und kommt dabei zu dem Schluß, daß die Dinosaurier nicht durch eine Katastrophe ausgelöscht wurden.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Haq, B. U., J. Hardenbol und P. R. Vail: Chronology of Fluctuating Sea Levels Since the Triassic. Science 235, 1156–1167 (1987).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hecht, Jeff: Evolving Theories for Old Extinctions. New Scientist (November 1988).

    Google Scholar 

  • Hodge, Carle: Dinosaurs Died in Fireball Rain, Scientists Think. Arizona Republic (vom 19. Januar 1990).

    Google Scholar 

  • Hsu, Kenneth J.: The Great Dying: Cosmic Catastrophe, Dinosaurs and the Theory of Evolution. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Orlando, Florida (1986) [dtsch.: Die letzten Jahre der Dinosaurier. Birkhäuser, Basel (1990)].

    Google Scholar 

  • Hut, Piet, Walter Alvarez, W. P. Elder, T. Hansen, Erle G. Kauffman, G. Keller, E. M. Shoemaker und P. R. Weissman: Comet Showers as a Cause of Mass Extinctions. Nature 329, 118–126 (1987).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Jaroff, Leon: At Last, the Smoking Gun. Time (vom 1. Juli 1991).

    Google Scholar 

  • Kerr, Richard A.: Snowbird II: Clues to Earth’s Impact History. Science 242 (vom 9. Dezember 1988).

    Google Scholar 

  • Leary, Warren E.: Big Asteroid Passes Near Earth Unseen in a Rare Close Call. New York Times (vom 20. April 1989).

    Google Scholar 

  • Mathur, U. B. und S. C. Pant: Sauropod Dinosaur Humeri from Lameta Group (Upper Cretaceous-?Paleocene) of Kheda District, Gujarat. Journal of the Paleontological Society of India (Lucknow) 29 (Dezember 1986).

    Google Scholar 

  • McKenna, Malcolm C: Collecting Microvertebrate Fossils by Washing and Screening. Aus Bernie Kümmel und David Raup (Hrsg.): Handbook of Paleontological Techniques. W. H. Freeman and Co., San Francisco (1965).

    Google Scholar 

  • Orth, Charles J., James S. Gilmore, Jere D. Knight, Charles L. Pillmore, Robert H. Tschudy und James E. Fassett: An Iridium Abundance Anomaly at the Palynological Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary in Northern New Mexico. Science 214, 1341–1343 (1981).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Padian, Kevin, und William A. Clemens: Terrestrial Vertebrate Diversity: Episodes and Insights. Aus James W. Valentine (Hrsg.): Phanerozoic Diversity Patterns: Profiles in Macroevolution. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 41–96 (1985).

    Google Scholar 

  • Rampino, Michael R., und R. B. Strothers: Flood Basalt Volcanism During the Past 250 Million Years. Science 241, 663–668 (1988).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Raup, David M.: Mass Extinction: A Commentary. Paleontology 30 (1) (1987).

    Google Scholar 

  • Raup, David M. und George E. Boyajian: Patterns of Generic Extinction in the Fossil Record. Paleobiology 14 (2) (1988).

    Google Scholar 

  • Rigby, J. Keith Jr.: Death by Degrees. Earthwatch 8 (6) (Juni 1989).

    Google Scholar 

  • Rigby, J. Keithjun., Karl R. Newman, Jan Smit, S. van der Kars, Robert E. Sloan und Rigby, J. Keith: Dinosaurs from the Paleocene Part of the Hell Creek Formation, McCone County, Montana. Palaios 2, 296–302 (1987).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ritter, Malcolm: Glassy Blobs Add to Evidence That Asteroid Killed Off Dinosaurs. Associated Press (vom 7. Februar 1991).

    Google Scholar 

  • Rogers, Michael: The Death of the Dinosaurs. Newsweek (vom 19. Dezember 1988).

    Google Scholar 

  • Russell, Dale A.: The Gradual Decline of the Dinosaurs — Fact or Fallacy? Nature 307, 360–361 (1984).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Russell, Dale A.: A Note on the Terminal Cretaceous Nodosaurids of North America. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 7, 102 (1987).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Saito, T., T. Yamanoi und T. Kaiho: End-Cretaceous Devastation of Terrestrial Flora in the Boreal Far East. Nature 323, 253–255 (1986).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Sheehan, Peter, Daniel E. Fastovsky, R. G. Hofman, C. B. Berghaus und Diane L. Gabriel: Sudden Extinction of the Dinosaurs — Latest Cretaceous, Upper Great Plains, USA. Science 254, 835–839 (1991).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Sloan, Bob, Keith Rigby, L. Van Valen und Diane L. Gabriel: Gradual Dinosaur Extinction and the Simultaneous Ungulate Radiation in the Hell Creek Formation. Science 232, 629–633 (1986).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Smit, Jan und S. Van der Kaars: Terminal Cretaceous Extinctions in the Hell Creek Area, Montana: Compatible with Catastrophic Extinctions. Science 223 (1984).

    Google Scholar 

  • Spicer, Robert A., R. J. Burnham, P. Grant und H. Glicke: Pityrogramma calomelanos, the primary post-eruption colonizer of Volcan Chichonal, Chiapas, Mexico. American Fern Journal 75, 1–5 (1985).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Stanley, Steven: Extinctions. Scientific American Library, New York (1987) [dtsch. Krisen der Evolution: Artensterben in der Erdgeschichte. 2. Aufl., Spektrum der Wiss.-Verlagsgesellschaft, Heidelberg (1989)]

    Google Scholar 

  • Sullivan, Robert: Dino Wars. Dartmouth Alumni Magazine (Februar 1990).

    Google Scholar 

  • Teichert, Curt: Extinctions and Extinctions. Palaios 2 (5) (1987).

    Google Scholar 

  • Thomson, Keith Stewart: Anatomy of the Extinction Debate. American Scientist 76 (Januar–Februar 1988).

    Google Scholar 

  • Wilford, John Noble: For Dinosaur Extinction Theory, a’ smoking Gun’. New York Times (vom 7. Februar 1991).

    Google Scholar 

  • Wolbach, Wendy S., I. Gilmour, Edward Anders, C. J. Orth und R. R. Brooks: Global Fire at the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary. Nature 334, 665–669 (1988).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Wolfe, Jack: Paleobotanical Evidence for a June ‘Impact Winter’ at the K-T Boundary. Nature (vom 1. August 1991).

    Google Scholar 

  • Wolfe, Jack, und Gary R. Upchurch: Vegetation, Climatic and Floral Changes at the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary. Nature 324, 148–152 (1986).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Wolfe, Jack, und Gary R. Upchurch: North American Non-Marine Climates and Vegetation During the Late Cretaceous. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 61, 33–77 (1987).

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Authors
  1. Don Lessem
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 1994 Springer Basel AG

About this chapter

Cite this chapter

Lessem, D. (1994). Dinosaurier am Rande des Kollaps — und dann?. In: Dinosaurierforscher. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-6177-9_12

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-6177-9_12

  • Publisher Name: Birkhäuser, Basel

  • Print ISBN: 978-3-0348-6178-6

  • Online ISBN: 978-3-0348-6177-9

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation