Re: sauropod quantity

[Stanley Friesen <sarima@ix.netcom.com>]

At 11:18 AM 9/19/99 -0400, Josh Smith wrote:
>    Third, the point that sarima@ix.netcom.com made about almost all
taphonomic
>modes favoring larger material is incorrect.  Virtually all lacustrine
>taphonomic modes and most marine ones (which together far outweigh the
>terrestrial fluvial realm in terms of outcrop area) are, if anything, biased
>towards  smaller material.

Correction accepted.

Of course such areas are also biased against terrestrial forms like
dinosaurs.  For instance in the Solnhofen dinosaurs are *very* rare
compared to aquatic and aerial forms.

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