Damien Evans
Up The Irons
Dinosaurs were in some type of trouble before the comet strike. Although their biomass remained as strong as ever, diversity was crashing. Some estimates put the species numbers as low as a fifth what they were even 20 million years earlier.
As others have pointed out, the marine reptiles crashed because of the food chain. Huge populations of marine creatures such as anomites etc all went down at the same time
And plesiosaurs and icthyosaurs went down even earlier.