Re: cause of Gigantism in sauropods

[Tor Bertin <nightimeshadow@yahoo.com>]

> Now, pardon the ignorance of much work on this,
> but in
> order to test this, we may ask if there was some
> correlation between
> maximal plant size and sympatric maximal sauropod size.

Part of the problem with this is that there's almost certainly going to be a 
substantial amount of floral biodiversity. Which plants are you focusing on for 
correlations? If, as a somewhat absurd example, you find a correlation between 
sauropod body size and flower size, is that really biologically meaningful? I'm 
thinking that such a thing would be extremely hard without having a better 
understanding of just what sauropods were really feeding on (and, given the 
amount of time sauropods were around, I suspect the answer would be 'all sorts 
of things').



 
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