'Foramideo' found in Peru reinforces the theory that the process of extinction of the dinosaurs began before the famous Yucatan meteorite.
Peru was the scene of a discovery that may change the assumptions governing paleontology and history books today. The director of the Paleontological Museum in Chiclayo Hönningen Meyer, Klaus Hönningen, presented to the scientific community a fossil found in our Amazon reinforcing a different theory about the disappearance of the dinosaurs (presumably caused by an asteroid) .
The fossil is an organism 'foramideo' belongs to the upper cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian) and was found in the vicinity of the Yurimaguas on the banks of the Huallaga River, Loreto region (coordinates 05142 " 08 " S and 76 º 08 '30 ") and are older than 70 million years.
fossil conditions demonstrate the existence of a climate phenomenon that has shaped the reduction in size of species, caused by climatic reasons . This phenomenon took place 5 million years before the asteroid impact in Yucatan, leading to a gradual decline in subsequent extinction of species and some of them. Klaus
Hönningennot deny the influence of the asteroid in the disappearance of the dinosaurs, but reiterates that his discovery proves that the process of extinction and had originated in a before impact natural
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