Anthology+Work-Dinosaur+Ghosts+21

What Happened to Coelophysis?
 * Hypothesis || Evidence Supporting || Evidence Against ||
 * Many Coelophysis get stuck in the mud and sink into the mud as they struggle. || In California there were many tar pits and many animals were stuck in them. It could be that what happened in California happened in Ghost Ranch. || If they had gotten stuck in tar pits they would probably be upright when the people found their skeletons, not on their sides. ||
 * Coelophysis are surprised as a volcano erupts, ash shoots into the sky and the run in panic, tripping over each other in there haste to escape. || Many catastrophic things have happened by erupting volcanoes, like Mount St. Helen. During that eruption the animals that couldn't run or burrow under the ground died from the ash and poisonous gases. || No silica bubbles have been found in the rocks of Ghost Ranch. ||
 * Strange clouds cover the earth, blocking out the sun. Animals the Coelophysis eat become more and more rare to find, and the Coelophysis fall one by one, not getting back up. || Some scientists have found iridium (something within earth rocks, but more is found in asteroids) in 65 million year-old rocks. Coelophysis could have been hit with an asteroid, just like scientists believed happened 65 million years ago. ||  ||