Re: DINOSAUR digest 3384

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

> Someone reading your post would assume that I am
> arguing that the large dinos should have survived k/t
> because they could or would be protected by water--

I can't see how. You said your comment was "not germane" to the extinction 
discussion. So I took it out of that context because I thought you _meant_ 
it to be taken out of that context. I completely took it out of the 
extinction debate. I kept the other context you supplied -- that of the 
question of sauropod lifestyle.

> Moving on to a more general and important point
> (paraphrasing here)-- "No water bodies deeper than 5-6
> m in the entire Morrison Fm."
>
> ??? How in the hell do you know that?

Well, it seems to have been a rather dry environment, with playas and the 
like. Decades ago people thought it must have consisted of swamps and deep 
lakes, which was not the case according to more recent studies.