Re: Re: Life's scale reduction since the Dinosaurs

[Thomas_R_HOLTZ@umail.umd.edu (th81)]

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>Odd.  You do realize, of course, that the largest dinosaurs came at the 
>*middle* of the Mesozoic,

A Dino Myth alert!  Unless Amphicoelias was real, all the largest sauropods
are Cretaceous: Cenomanian Argentinosaurus and late Senonian (Campanian?
Maastrichtian?  Have to check) Argyrosaurus and "Antarctosaurus" giganteus
outclass the big Jurassic sauropods.

Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
Vertebrate Paleontologist
Dept. of Geology
University of Maryland
College Park, MD  20742
Email:Thomas_R_HOLTZ@umail.umd.edu (th81)
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