Re: Spinosaurus questions and the presence of air=.

[David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

> One has to see if the PhyloCode will accept the species name is the same 
> as the genus name... 
 
Of course. Remember, genera don't exist, the PhyloCode will ignore all 
ranks. :-) 
 
(I assume lots of species will be ignored, too, as of similarly untestable 
existence. We'll see.) 
 
Oh, back to the subject: 
http://www.cmnh.org/dinoarch/1998Nov/msg00560.html. Nobody says all fish 
must be as small as *Lepidotes*! 
        Such big fish might even explain why spinosaurids have not only a 
croc snout, which is resistant to torsion (unlike a normal big theropod 
snout, which is built for vertical stresses), but big, powerful arms with 
serious thumb claws in addition: when the fish is bigger than one's 
head... of course all this doesn't make them exclusive piscivores, but I 
do think eating fish for a living is feasible under such circumstances. 

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