Re: Ornithopod Gastroliths

["Octavio Mateus" <museulourinha@mail.telepac.pt>]

    According to Christiansen (1996: p.3) and Brown (1907: p.392) the hadrosaurid Claosaurus has gastroliths.
 
   Other species with gastroliths are:
 
Psittacosaurus
 
Lourinhanosaurus
Allosaurus
Caudipteryx
Syntarsus
 
Massospondylus
Sellosaurus
Dinheirosaurus
Apatosaurus
Barosaurus
Dicraeosaurus
aff. Rebbachisaurus
Diplodocus
 
                 Octávio Mateus
 
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De: Mike Everhart <mjever@southwind.net>
Para: dinosaur@usc.edu <dinosaur@usc.edu>; dinoland@lycos.com <dinoland@lycos.com>; gigi.babcock@alumni.usc.edu <gigi.babcock@alumni.usc.edu>
Data: Quarta-feira, 18 de Outubro de 2000 7:11
Assunto: Re: Ornithopod Gastroliths

>Here's an Ornithomimid ref plus another from 
Nature:
>
>Kobayashi, Y., J-C. Lu, Z-M. Dong, R. Barsbold, Y. Azuma, 
and Y. Tomida.
>1999. Herbivorous diet in an ornithomimid dinosaur. 
Nature. 402:480-481.
>
>Ji, Q., P. Currie, M. Norell, and S. Ji. 
1998, Two feathered dinosaurs
>from northeastern China. Nature. 
393(6687):753-761.
>
>Both papers mention 
gastroliths.
>
>Mike Everhart 
>Adjunct Curator of 
Paleontology
>Sternberg Museum of Natural History
>Fort Hays State 
University, Hays, KS
>