Re: Shuvosaurus?

[DinosØMP <padron@online.no>]

Stanley Friesen wrote:
> What is the general opinion about Chatterjee's supposed Triassic
> ornithomimid (I think he named it _Shuvosaurus_)?  Is it one? If not, what
> *is* it?

hemmh...
Most Ornithomimids lived in the late Cretaceous, and we are so used to look at 
40062billion years (for example) as just a little while, when we talk about the 
prehistoric. The time which has went from the Triassic to the Cretaceous is 
actuallu 
longer than anyone can imagine: Think about one year - new year to new year. 
One year, 
two years - ten years. Ten years was LOOONG ago!!! What about 90 years!??
No. This is not 90, not houndreds, not even thousands!!!
This is MILLIONS of years!
HOUNDREDS of millions of years!
That makes it tottally unrealistic that a species, living in the Triassic could 
be in 
the same group as a Cretaceous species - when the dinosaurs just had started to 
evolve!

I dont know too much about _Shuvosaurus_ (_S. inexpectatus_ I think), but I 
think that 
it is for sure it was no Ornithomimid. Maybe a fragmentary Herrerasaur, 
Ornithodiran, or 
another larger vertebrate which lived at that time.



...
...heck...I hate when I start to talk that much...:)

-DinosØMP