RE: Scarcity of creatous birds (was Re: seeds and pterosaurs)

[Toby White <augwhite@neosoft.com>]

On Thursday, September 09, 1999 11:30 AM, HPBredow@aol.com 
[SMTP:HPBredow@aol.com] wrote:
>
[snip]
> According to David Norman in "Prehistoric Life" fossils of the early reptile
> Hylonomus were found in fossilized tree stumps.(still a valid view?).

Yes.

>Would
> be a possiblity for finding these small critters, but I think normally they
> were to agile to be caught that way.

These Carbonaceous finds were due to special circumstances, not likely to be 
found in the K.  If I remember correctly, the trees in question were lycopods, 
or at any rate something which was rigid at the periphery but rotted quickly in 
the interior, creating hollow stumps.  The extensive swamps of the period were 
also probably not as common in the K.   link 
<http://www.tyrrellmuseum.com/tour/reptiles.html>

  --Toby White