Re: seeds and pterosaurs

[HPBredow@aol.com]

Dan Bensen wrote:
> It seems that virtualy all pterosaurs were fish-eaters.

Yes, there are some exceptions.  We've found a few batlike, insectivorous 
pterosaurs, but other than that, all the other speices I looked were said to 
be fish-eaters.
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Some months ago I bought a second hand copy of  "The illustrated encyclopedia 
of Pterosaurs" by Peter Wellnhofer. 
Under "Feeding Habits" there is the following paragraph which may be also 
applicable for seed-eating pterosaurs:

"So far there are no known fruit-eating pterosaurs. It has been assumed that, 
especially in the Cretaceous when the first higher flowering plants appeared, 
it was pterosaurs in particular who distributed the seeds, as bird fauna were 
still relatively sparse at the time. Such fruit-eating pterosaurs probably 
lived further inland in higher regions subject to weathering and erosion, and 
thus with less chance of fossilization. If there were fruit-eaters - which is 
highly probable - we are unlikely ever to find their fossil remains."

Greetings from Germany

Heinz Peter Bredow
Bremen/Germany

BTW: The former owner of this book was Ronald O. Adolphson, it would be nice 
to know if he's a DML subscriber.