Re: Cooperating theropods?

["Jaime Headden" <jaemei@hotmail.com>]

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<I've read this often as an indication that Deinonychus preyed upon 
Tenontosaurus, but I wonder how this evidence of feeding (if that's what 
it is) suggests predation.  I think there's a step missing there.  Isn't 
it more likely that these were post-flood (or other) scavenging 
scenarios?  Dead bodies of large animals found with the teeth of small 
carnivorous animals . . .>

Not when the entire bodies of these *Deinonychus* are found with the 
*Tenontosaurus*, or that there are three different specimens of 
dromaeosaurs preying on tenontosaurs. The sedimentology was sufficient 
only to scatter the remains into diarticulated array, not as would be 
suggested by a large flood or fast current; That means partial burial 
before the flood that uprooted blocks of bones and moved them a short 
distance away.

Jaime A. Headden

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