If old rainforest ecosystems like these could withstand extinction events (ie. Asteroid impact), wouldnt the fauna living there survive too?
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The trees all died during the KT extinction events.
They might mean that there was a forest before and after this event for 130 million years, but there were definitely some years after the impact where there were no living trees there.
The oldest tree colony is 14,000 years and the oldest tree is about 5000 years. There are no living beings from 130 million years old, just fossils.
Some dinosaurs (birds) survived the extinction events. Though they were already birds (they evolved into bird tens of millions of years before the impact). They survived because they were small and could live on animal and dead matter.
Plants mostly survived as seed or roots. All trees on Earth died. They survived only as seed (which aren’t living trees).
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