[Rockhounds] Did the world's best-preserved dinosaurs really die in 'Pompeii-type' events?

[Paul]

Did the world's best-preserved dinosaurs really die in 'Pompeii-type' events?
by Columbia Climate School, PhysOrg, November 4, 2024
https://phys.org/news/2024-11-world-dinosaurs-die-pompeii-events.html

The paywalled paper is:

MacLennan, S.A., Sha, J., Olsen, P.E., Kinney, S.T., Chang, C., Fang, Y., Liu, J.,
Slibeck, B.B., Chen, E. and Schoene, B., 2024. Extremely rapid, yet
noncatastrophic, preservation of the flattened-feathered and 3D dinosaurs
of the Early Cretaceous of China. Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences, 121(47), p.e2322875121.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2322875121

 A related article is:

The Great Chinese Dinosaur Boom
A gold rush of fossil-finding is turning China into the new epicenter of paleontology
Richard Conniff, Smithsonian Magazine, May 2018.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/great-chinese-dino-boom-180968745/

 Yours,

 Paul H.