RE: Raptor Red and Heyday Of The Giants

[Tim Williams <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com>]

Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. wrote:

> > To quote from the piece: "Curiously out of place are the unnamed 
> diplodocid
> > (at least Bakker now recognizes that they did make it into the 
> Cretaceous),"
>
> This is a reference to comments in Dinosaur Heresies that diplodocoids 
> ("tripodal sauropods") died out at the Jurassic.

Bakker was partly right (as opposed to completely wrong).  It does appear 
that diplodocIDs died out at the end of the Jurassic - although diplodocOIDs 
continued on in the form of dicraeosaurids, rebbachisaurids, and (maybe) the 
rather large _Losillasaurus_ (age uncertain).  As the Cretaceous wore on, 
even these rather conservative diplodocoids appear to have been nudged out 
by the burgeoning titanosaurs.

> Please note, though: that review is TEN YEARS OLD!

I guess your crystal ball was on the fritz.  Hopefully the problem has been 
rectified.  Now, can you tell us when more _Deinocheirus_ material will be 
found.  ;-)