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RE: Sauropod Self Defense

To: dinosaur@usc.edu, ezequiel.vera@gmail.com
Subject: RE: Sauropod Self Defense
From: Tim Williams <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:13:23 -0600
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Ezequiel Vera wrote:

> I'm not sure, but if I'm right, Carcharodontosaurids and Spinosaurids where
> replaced by Abelisaurids as "big predators" (althought not so big) in South
> America during the late cretaceous...

_Megaraptor_, which is probably either a spinosauroid or a carcharodontosaurid, 
is of Late Cretaceous age.  So the abelisaurids didn't have South America to 
themselves.

Cheers

Tim

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