Re: Mammals preying on giant azhdarchid pterosaurs!

["T. Mike Keesey" <tmk@dinosauricon.com>]

On Mon, 22 May 2000, Ahmed al-Mahasa Sha'ad wrote:

> It relate becuase  eggs of marine reptiles would be as  hard to get to as 
> the eggs of amphibius crocodyles.  Icthyosaurs did not lay eggs at all. but 
> these marine reptiles are all extinct too -  like dinosaurs.

Ichthyosaurs went extinct before non-neornithean dinosaurs did, though.
Mosasaurs, sauropterygians, and hesperornithiforms were the reptilian
marine predators at the end of the Cretaceous.

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