Figure 13. Map of Dinosaur Peninsula (Clarey 2015b). The yellow shows the possible extent of the lowland pre-Flood land mass across the USA known as Dinosaur Peninsula. sive destruction of the Dinosaur Peninsula, the Cretaceous strata inundated the last massive herds of dinosaurs fleeing the rising floodwaters, which included hadrosaurs, ceratopsians, and tyrannosaurs. And like many land animal fossils, Cretaceous dinosaurs are often found mixed with marine creatures and/or are found buried in marine rocks (limestone and chalk) like many of the dinosaurs of the Cretaceous in Europe (Csiki-Sava et al. 2015; Clarey 2015c; Clarey 2020). To illustrate the continuing progression of the Flood onto land and the burial of terrestrial animals, the PBDB was queried using Archosauria, Insecta, and Mammalia as filters for the Cretaceous (Figure 14). I. Tertiary (Paleogene and Neogene) (Tejas Megasequence) fossils The Tertiary is the major upper system of the geological column represented by the Tejas Megasequence. We believe it represents the last global Flood layers that were produced from violent runoff as the newly separated continents and their mountain ranges were being uplifted in the final stage of the global Flood (Clarey 2020). The total volume of sediment represented by the Tejas is the second greatest amount by percentage of all the six megasequences – representing 32.5% of the total amount of the Phanerozoic (Cambrian through Tertiary) (Figure 15). Many unique types of mammals, birds, insects, and plants that would likely have been living at higher and more temperate climates make their first appearances in the Tertiary with no evolutionary precursors in lower rock layers. While this unique mix of catastrophically buried fossils is difficult to explain in an evolutionary scenario, the global Flood model of progressive burial by ecological zonation closely fits the data. Our interpretation still has a bit of difficulty explaining the trackways and footprints found in some layers of the Cenozoic. It is possible some of these layers have been misidentified and should be Pleistocene (post-Flood), but more research is needed on each site. The plethora of geological data gathered by studying the stratigraphic columns around the globe strongly indicate that the K-Pg is the high water point of the Flood, and represents Day 150 of the Flood year (Johnson and Clarey 2021; Clarey and Werner 2023). That would make the Tertiary (Tejas Megasequence) the receding phase of the Flood (Clarey and Werner 2023). TOMKINS AND CLAREY Paleontology of the Global Flood 2023 ICC 577
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