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RE: Hell Creek



-----Original Message-----
From: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu [mailto:owner-dinosaur@usc.edu]On Behalf Of
Ivan Kwan
Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2001 9:25 AM
To: dinosaur@usc.edu
Subject: Hell Creek

I intend to do a story about the fauna of the Hell Creek Formation, just
before the K-T extinction, and I've got a few questions:

Is this correct?

By the way, I have no idea what animals inhabited the Western Interior
Seaway at this time. Was big ol' mean Tylosaurus still making life hell for
Clidastes, Platecarpus & Elasmosaurus? Were Hesperornis & Ichthyornis still
around? What about Archelon? I guess Pteranodon had died out by then, but
were there any other pterosaurs besides Quetzalcoatlus? Also, was
Deinosuchus still around then? (Would be quite cool to have a real clash of
the titans; Deinosuchus vs. Tyrannosaurus)<<

Deinosuchus is a marine alligatoroid (see Chris I didn't say Allgatorid). So
if Tyrannosaurus was walking along a beach or lagoon...


Thanks!

Of course, Deinosuchus is a *Campanian* alligatoroid, and Tyrannosaurus is a *Maastrichtian* theropod....


chris -- ------------------------ Christopher A. Brochu Assistant Professor Department of Geoscience University of Iowa Iowa City, IA 52242

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