Paleontologists have a much more detailed view of the past than you think. There are fossils of fish and trees killed by the asteroid impact itself, buried by

Paleontologists have a much more detailed view of the past than you think. There are fossils of fish and trees killed by the asteroid impact itself, buried by the tsunami.[1] > In the deposit, the team discovered an ancient freshwater pond whose occupants had been quickly cemented together by waves of sediment and debris. The fossils include sturgeon and six-foot-long paddlefish, their scales intact but their bodies ripped and smashed; marine mollusks; leaves and tree fronds, and the burned trunks of trees. The fish carcasses were not bloated, decayed, or scavenged, suggesting that they were buried quickly — and that few animals were left alive after the cataclysm to come digging. > The fossil deposit also teems with tektites, tiny glass beads that are the telltale fallout of planetary-scale impacts. Fifty percent of the fossilized fish were found with tektites in their gills, as if the fish had inhaled the material. Also recovered were tektites trapped in amber. Their chemical composition was unchanged in 66 million years, and it closely matched the unique chemical signature of other tektites associated with the Chicxulub event. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/29/science/dinosaurs-extinction-asteroid.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/29/science/dinosaurs-extinct... See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanis_(fossil_site) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanis_(fossil_site)