Re: Sauropod Energetics (Peristaltic pump)

[Tim Williams <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com>]

Sim Koning wrote:

> Is there any gigantic, short necked, big headed, low browsing sauropods?

Not that I know of.  Perhaps that's why God invented hadrosaurs.  :-)

The biggest hadrosaurs (like _Shantungosaurus_) got up to about 15m long, 
which is small potatoes for a sauropod.  But unlike hadrosaurs, most of the 
length of a typical sauropod was taken up by the enormously long neck and 
tail.  Hadrosaurs were "short necked" and "big headed", and 15m is 
impressive - even "gigantic" - for an ornithischian.

Cheers

Tim