Re: Gastric stones of dinosaurs were not for milling food !

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

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From: "don ohmes" <d_ohmes@yahoo.com>
Sent: Monday, January 01, 2007 3:10 PM

> --------------- Relative to maximum acquisition capability *and* daily 
> nutritional requirements-- don't know, that was one reason for the 
> original post; to my surprise, no one has come up with numbers or 
> references.

So you haven't found anything in the archives? (I don't have the time to 
search.)

> ----------- I have been referencing *large*, that is, maximal sauropods. 
> Correct me if I am wrong; the skull/jaws/teeth [...] of the 
> beast-formerly-known-as-Baluchitherium are considerably more robust than 
> the much larger Diplodicus, et al?

Yes, but that's because it had to chew, something *Diplodocus* clearly did 
not do.

> To make things more quantitative, does anyone know (from personal
> observation or literature) how long an elephant chews each bite? Cause
> if we subtract this time from the feeding time, we could find out how
> much a non-chewing elephant might eat per day.

That's probably in the archives, too, somewhere.