Re: mosasaur babies/no marine dinos

[KiernanCR@aol.com]

In a message dated 1/1/02 9:23:46 PM, jbois@umd5.umd.edu writes:

<< I'm proposing that no dinosaur could compete in the whale/mosasaur
habitat, i.e., be big and a completely an open sea-faring
creature--independent of land. >>

Certainly the hesperornithids did well as piscivores in an enviroment where 
mosasauroids were also filling the piscivore niche/s, and hesperornithids 
were "dinosaurs." Of course, we can't say whether or not hesperornithids were 
completely independent of a terrestrial existence (though that seems 
unlikely).

Caitlin R. Kiernan