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sauropod quantity
Someone made a comment about such a large number of very large animals and that
got me to thinking. Is it possible that the fossil record is over-represented by
sauropods and other very large animals (I mean in relation to other smaller
animals)? The thought came to me that the very large bones might improve
fossilization by taking longer to dispose of and will thus have more of a chance
to fossilize, at least a piece of them anyway, than smaller animals.
Does this make any sense at all or should I toss it on the huge pile of
interesting but wrong possibilities?
Joe Daniel