Re: BITING CERATOP{S}IANS

[Flyinggoat@aol.com]

>Well, even if they are (are they? Hallett's painting in Czerkas and >Czerkas
shows nests) they can't be much to do with the >Protoceratops given that all
Protoceratops eggs/nests are now >known to be oviraptorid.

Neil Clark has said things on this list that infer that the eggs identified
previously as Protoceratops' eggs, and recently found in Mongolia with little
baby therapod's in them, may not be representative of the whole class of what
has been "Protoceratops' Eggs".  There are other factors, IMHO, we may be
dealing with egg mimics.  Perhaps some of the eggs MAY be Protoceratops.  We
won't know till we find an embryo of a Protoceratops in ANY egg.  We know
that a therapod was found in an egg-type that we have found previously with
Protoceratops remains nearby.  That's really all we can say with accuracy.
 I'm not ready to eliminate possible Protoceratops claims till some further
evidence shows that Protoceratops must be eliminated from the egg candidates.

(sorry it's so word-y)
Betty Cunningham(Flyinggoat@aol.com)