Re: World's 'largest dinosaur' found (with crocs & fish)

[zone65@bigpond.com]

> <searching memory> I don't believe I have ever seen a dinosaur fossil 
> in
> the ground in which a gar fish dermal plate, or a turtle fragment, or a
> croc scute was *not* also found nearby.
>
> Since water plays a big role in depositing nearly all terrestrial
> fossils-to-be (aeolian deposition being the exception), then the
> association of croc fossils and fish fossils with dinosaur bones has no
> particular significance.
>
> <pb>

I do wonder, then, why so many claim that most or all sauropods were 
dry-landers, if their remains are practically *always* associated with 
water creatures ... I appreciate the catch-22 that water and the 
sedimentary deposits it lays down are necessary for forming fossils. 
But doesn't that mean that all fossilized dinosaurs lived in 
more-or-less wet conditions? Or can fossilization sometimes be the 
result of infrequent but heavy rainfall (such as in the Chinese desert 
finds)?

Peter M