Jan Smit (paleontologist)

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Jan Smit (born 8 April 1948) is a Dutch paleontologist. He was affiliated with the Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam from 2003 to 2013 as a professor of event stratigraphy, studying rapid changes in the geological record related to mass extinctions. Smit independently hypothesized and worked on the asteroid impact hypothesis linking it to the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, which, according to Smit and others, wiped out the non-avian dinosaurs.

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