Re: Limbs and niche partitioning

[Richard W Travsky <rtravsky@uwyo.edu>]

On Thu, 30 Sep 1999 NJPharris@aol.com wrote:
> [...]
> I've wondered this myself in the past (and there are probably some old posts 
> of mine on the subject floating around the archives).  This may also be why 
> dinosaurs were not particularly effective at producing small-mammal-sized 
> forms (at least not until the advent of advanced flight and hopping 

We can't know that there weren't a lot of small-mammal-sized forms
because of preservation bias on larger forms in the fossil record.

This isn't to say that wasn't the case, just that we can't know.

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