Re: Babies and Ecology

[Emily Tremain <etremain@gac.edu>]

>I don't know about Tyrannosaurs, but didn't Bakker find some evidence of
parental feeding of infants in ceratosaurs (from the Jurassic of Wyoming)??  

Yes. I just heard Bakker lecture at St. John's University in MN and he
discussed evidence of parental care for infants. The lecture was less
technical in nature; he didn't even give the names of the dinosaurs
involved. It sounded as though he had found evidence of _Allosaurus_ teeth
marks, both adult and infant, on the distal end of a sauropod femur. (maybe
it was _Ceratosaurus_?) He said that he had found at least 4 isolated sites
in which this pathology was observed. He showed some slides of this femur,
and moved on to another topic. I had to leave immediately after the
lecture, so I didn't get the chance to ask about it. Hopefully this scrappy
information will be of some use....
-Emily Tremain


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