Question about pre-history worms & dinosaurs

[nightofjoy]

 

 

Hi everyone.

 

I'm doing a project on earthworms, and I was hoping you might be able to provide the names of some dinosaurs that existed in at the same time and in the same geographical locations as early earthworms, in periods of both extreme cold, and extreme heat.

 

So for example: 

 

X Dinos existed along side worms during the extreme cold of period (or dates) X

 

X Dinos existed along side worms during the extreme heat of period (or dates) X

 

I've been cobbling together bits and pieces from Google and thought it couldn't hurt to seek the advice of experts.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Best regards

 

Mike.

[Troodon]

Interesting,

What is your definition of extreme heat or cold?  Dinosaurs really did not like either.

At least earthworms survived the KT extinction while all the Dinosaurs died off thats extreme

[nightofjoy]

Hi. Thanks for the reply. I suppose about as hot a time as they could all have survived at the same time, and about as cold 

[Tidgy's Dad]

23 minutes ago, Troodon said:

 

At least earthworms survived the KT extinction while all the Dinosaurs died off thats extreme

Except for the birds of course. 

Which presumably ate lots of the worms. 

The early Palaeocene bird catches the worm, as they say.

Edited May 4, 2022 by Tidgy's Dad

[Troodon]

40 minutes ago, nightofjoy said:

Hi. Thanks for the reply. I suppose about as hot a time as they could all have survived at the same time, and about as cold 

 

What you are describing are seasonal conditions.   Hot summers and cold winters being more extreme in northern or  equatorial latitudes.  Unfortunately I do not know the diversity of these worms in the Mesozoic period to tie them to specific dinosaurs.   

 

[Fossildude19]

I would think you would need to know where and when earthworms came into being.

[Troodon]

8 minutes ago, Fossildude19 said:

I would think you would need to know where and when earthworms came into being.

Earthworms have been around 200 million years but I could not tell you what their habitat was.

[nightofjoy]

Hi everyone. Thanks for the replies.

 

You're right. I need to rethink this and possibly just focus on the hottest & coldest periods of the last 200m years worms were able to survive, and forget about dinosaurs....

[Tidgy's Dad]