Eli5: If the rainforest of Borneo is 130 million years old, why aren’t any surviving dinosaur species found there?

Question

If old rainforest ecosystems like these could withstand extinction events (ie. Asteroid impact), wouldnt the fauna living there survive too?

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Answer 1

They didn’t withstand the extinction event, they got obliterated along with everything else. They just regrew again at some point afterwards.