sauropods versus blue whales

[GSP1954@aol.com]

There are plenty of whale skeletons from the Cenozoic, and there is no doubt 
that the blue whale is the biggest ever. It's coincidence, like the moon 
perfectly overlapping the sun in eclipses at this particular time (didn't do so 
when the moon was closer and soon won't anymore as the moon spirals away). 

Although the S Amer titanosaur specimens do not seem to exceed 100 tonnes, 
the Morrison Amphicoelus fragillimus vertebrae may belong to a 100-150 tonne 
diplodocid assuming Copes description of the collossal and since lost vertebrae 
is reasonably accurate. Also, it is not likely that the biggest sauropod 
species have been found. So it is possible that sauropod challanged blue whales 
in 
mass. If just 10% of the super-sauropods body mass was leg muscles - as per 
elephants and indicated by the size of leg muscle attachements - then they 
would 
have had no trouble in locomoting at elephantine speeds. 

There are reasons to question the conclusion that the new Canadian 
ichthyosaur is as large as blue whales, we must await the description and 
detailed 
comparisons. 

G Paul