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70% of oil deposits existing today were formed in the Mesozoic age (252 to 66 million years ago). That's slightly before, during, and after the existence of dinosaurs. To exclude them entirely from crude oil formation isn't a concept that holds a lot of water. Do I think that they were a majority contributor to oil formation? Absolutely not. That was done by microorganisms. But to say that no dinosaur carcass ever contributed to crude oil production is a fallacy.

I'm not a paleontologist but we're talking generalizations here and the consensus is "no". Can anyone prove that not a single dinosaur turned into oil? Obviously not - but that's not the point. Go ahead and google it as I am doing - I could literally spend the rest of the day linking articles that say "No, oil doesn't come from dinosaurs."

This site goes into detail how we use the term "fossil fuels" and again, how oil is not dinosaurs.

https://www.powells.com/post/orig...-dinosaurs

The bad wiring goes something like this: Oil is fossil fuel, and most of it comes from the age of the dinosaurs. Fossils equals dinosaurs, therefore dinosaurs equals oil. But if fossil fuel does not come from dinosaurs, then where does it come from? Plankton.

Fossils fuels are just that — combustibles of ancient biological origin, preserved in rock. But they're not made of dinosaurs. There were never enough dinosaurs in the world to generate the Earth's great stores of oil. And dinosaurs lived in the wrong environment. They were all terrestrial creatures. Oil comes from decaying marine organisms.

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