Re: Predator-trap?

[tlford@ix.netcom.com]

On 03/27/98 00:52:10 you wrote:
>
>Recently during a class discussion of predator traps, different bonebeds were
>mentioned as possible "predator trap" conglomerates.  There is an Allosaurus
>bonebed in Utah of (I believe) 44 individuals - the actual site was not
>remembered by our professor, nor was she able to locate info on whether there
>were other species of dinosaurs in conjunction with the allosaurs.  Does
>anyone know if there were any other types of dino's along side?  Any refs?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Melissa D. Fox
>
>

Cleveland-Llyod quarry.

I was at the Jurassic Symposium a few years ago and a paper was given on this 
site. They 
believed that the quarry is actually a very muddy pond that Camarasaurids got 
stuck in, and the 
Allosaurs saw this and went after them and also got stuck. This is not a well 
recieved theroy 
thou.

I don't know if you have anything like that where you live, but in San Diego 
there are lagoons 
that can trap you if you walk out into them, and they have to be rescued and 
sometimes 
helicoptered out.

Tracy