Re: Speculative dinosaur species (ibisosaurus) + ...

["aspidel" <aspidel@infonie.be>]

Hi everybody,

I was just thinking HP Stacey Burgess' "Ibisosaurus" should be more
"accurate" if it was based on ornithomimmids (toothless, omnivores), better
than (IMHO) on dromaeosaurs. BTW, nice try!

Some things to add on my last post:

-- to HP Christopher Srnka: I think it's better not to keep neither species
extinct before LK, nor species much rarer in LK than earlier. The choice is
large enough.

-- Pterosaurs: yep, Quetzalcoatlus or something like that.

-- And what about the mountains? Still we don't get informations about
mountain dinosaurs -I've still been thinking about it before-, we just get
speculation. I was wondering: why not (I just take dinos) jumping species of
hypsilophodonts, dromaeosaurs, troodontids, something like _Rhabdodon_
across the rivers, small sauropods in lower mountains?... still not
forgetting pterosaurs and some birds nesting on the rocks.

-- The result for the vote (you may go on!): no extinction, no comet on the
Earth: 6
                                                                  extinction
with some surviving dinosaurs: 1

Friendly - LJB.

----- Original Message -----
From: <Danvarner@aol.com>
To: <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2001 1:33 AM
Subject: Re: Speculative dinosaur species (ibisosaurus)


> In a message dated 7/28/01 3:44:14 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> pheonix2000@hotmail.com writes:
>
>
> << What about the possibility of  small theropods evolving to eat fish,
bugs
> and small invertebrates that live along shore lines. >>
>
>        Ornithomimids are known from the Fox Hills Formation, a shoreline
> deposit. The Alberta artist, Donna Sloan, has done several excellent
> restorations of them in a beach habitat. No reason to dream something up.
DV