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Re: "Digging Dinosaurs"



Where did they tend to
nest. I have a copy of Horner`s "Digging Dinosaurs", but alas,....have not
yet read it...8^(

I read "Digging Dinosaurs" just recently and am under the impression that although the nesting sites excavated by Jack Horner and crew were along what was an upper coastal plain (now the Willow Creek anticline) that doesn't necessarily imply that's what the dinosaurs favoured. There's good evidence to support nesting grounds in the upper plains only, but equally important, there's not enough evidence to say absolutely they avoided the lowlands, the deltas and whatnot. As Horner pointed out (in a great fun book, by the way) there could be no eggs in the wetter lower coastal plains simply because the acidity of the waters would have hindered fossilization.


Allan


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