>as in the crude oil made from all the extinct dinosaurs from hundreds of millions of years ago? Oil is not primarily made of dinosaurs but rather of plankton

>as in the crude oil made from all the extinct dinosaurs from hundreds of millions of years ago? Oil is not primarily made of dinosaurs but rather of plankton and algae. >its a nice idea, but its technically putting the cart before the horse as those pits wouldn't have been around due to them being formed from decaying organic matter from that time. You're talking about 100 million years ago as if that's a tremendously long gap but glossing over a span of about 400 million years as if it were a single instant. At any rate a tar pit was just an example of an environment that is conducive to fossil formation.