In contrast to the dinosaurs (Cretaceous period), some species, with human help, have spread rapidly across the world. Despite being domesticated thousands of years ago, it is only since the mid-20th century that mass poultry production has spread across the world. Production and consumption of chicken meat is forecast to continue growing, making its presence in future fossil records likely to grow, and increasing its chances of being a fossil that defines the current Anthropocene epoch.
Source: Watt AgNet, September 2, 2016.
The domestic broiler may well go down in history, not as being a quick to rear source of meat that became the most popular source of animal protein globally, but as a long-lasting common deposit that marked the change from one epoch in the Earth’s history to the next.