Why Are No Dinosaur Fossils Found in Excavations in Our Country?

The sizes of the dinosaurs that we know lived in ancient times, why they disappeared, how long they live Questions like these have always aroused curiosity.

In this article we another question mark We will erase it from our minds. Did dinosaurs, which we learn more and more with each passing day, ever lived in our country? Here, let’s examine it.

Let’s take a look at the Palinspastic map, which is based on geology or earth science.

Palinspastic map actually paleogeography It is a map of the Earth before tectonism took place in ancient times. We know that the continents we see on the world map did not exist in this state, in the period when the dinosaurs began to exist, that is, about 245 million years ago, in the time period called the Triassic Period.

such as Asia, Europe, Africa continents united is And we remember from geography lessons that it was named “Pangea” and that around Pangea there was only one ocean called “Panthalassa”, which was not divided into parts such as the Indian, the Great and the Pacific.

What was Earth like when the dinosaurs went extinct?

Dinosaurs, which emerged on average 245 million years ago, began to disappear 66 million years ago, in the Late Cretaceous Period. about 179 million years old Those ages when the dinosaurs, which had an adventure, started to go extinct are considered as the times when the world map began to take its current form.

In the Late Cretaceous Period we are talking about, most of Anatolia, which was made up of a series of islands, was under water. Yes, dinosaurs yet starting to extinction Recently, terrestrial areas have begun to form in our country, but there were some reasons why dinosaurs could not live in these lands.

Why couldn’t dinosaurs continue their lives in our country?

Although Anatolian geography has terrestrial regions in the last period where dinosaurs lived, in the Late Cretaceous Period feeding the dinosaurs Anatolia did not have fertile conditions for

Not only was it difficult to find food, but also terrestrial transportation was very difficult. Due to reasons such as food shortage and unsuitable living conditions, it is not possible to encounter dinosaur traces in Anatolian geography. almost impossible We can say it is.

Did the fossil found in Kastamonu 23 years ago belong to a dinosaur?

In 1999, Hacettepe University Faculty of Engineering Department of Geology Lecturer Assoc. Dr. By Cemal Tunoğlu 70 million years A big question mark arose when he found a fossil. Did this fossil belong to a dinosaur that lived in Anatolian lands?

Discovered around the Beyler Dam in Kastamonu, this dinosaur-like fossil, which surprises and excites everyone with its size, is a fossil living not on land but in water. sea ​​reptile it turned out to be.

As a result; Considering that our country consisted of huge pieces of water in the ages when the dinosaurs lived and it took a long time to become what it is today, we can see that the dinosaurs in the lands we live in. no remains It is extremely natural.

Sources: TUBITAK, INDEPENDENT