Re: <Autofrwd>DINOSAUR digest 861

[Martin Human <cockatoo@csi.com>]

Brian Choo wrote:

>It has been speculated that NZ sauropods grazed on fallen leaf mats during
this time but given the rather poor nutritional value of shed (as well
as
half-frozen) leaves, this sounds like a rather harsh way of life. Or
they
may have eaten like pigs before the winter chill and lived off reserves.

Doesn't this ground-foraging go against the grain of current thinking
regarding the (in)flexibility of saurop necks? 

cheers, martin
Suggested reading:
Molnar & Wiffen (1994) A Late Cretaceous polar dinosaur fauna from New
Zealand.
Cretaceous Research 15: 689-706.

Rich, T (1996) Significance of Polar Dinosaurs in Gondwana, Mem. of the
Queensland Museum 39)3) 711-717.

Wiffen, J (1996) Dinosaurian Palaeobiology: A New Zealand Perspective,
Mem. of
the Queensland Museum, 39(3) 725-731.

Cheerio




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>                             DINOSAUR Digest 861
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> Topics covered in this issue include:
> 
>   1) Re: polar sauropods
>         by "John V Jackson" <jjackson@interalpha.co.uk>
>   2) Re: The life of birds
>         by "John V Jackson" <jjackson@interalpha.co.uk>
>   3) re: polar sauropods
>         by bchoo@cyllene.uwa.edu.au (B. Choo)
>   4) Re: North by Northwest (was Polar Sauropods )
>         by "James R. Cunningham" <jrccea@bellsouth.net>
>   5) Re: [Re: polar sauropods]
>         by archosaur@usa.net
>   6) Re: [Re: Reptilia (was: Re: wow! another application form! :-)]
>         by archosaur@usa.net
>   7) Software info
>         by "Alessandro Marisa" <amaris@tin.it>
>   8) Re: Software info
>         by Betty Cunningham <bettyc@flyinggoat.com>
>   9) Re: The life of birds
>         by Dann Pigdon <dannj@alphalink.com.au>
>  10) Re: Muttaburrasaurus vs Altirhinus
>         by Dann Pigdon <dannj@alphalink.com.au>
>  11) Radiocarbon Dating
>         by brandonc@advant.com (Haist, Brandon)
>  12) Re: The life of birds
>         by brandonc@advant.com (Haist, Brandon)
>  13) Re: North by Northwest (was Polar Sauropods )
>         by brandonc@advant.com (Haist, Brandon)
>  14) Re: Radiocarbon Dating
>         by "Allan Edels" <Edels@email.msn.com>
>  15) Re: Radiocarbon Dating
>         by brandonc@advant.com (Haist, Brandon)
>  16) Re: [Re: polar sauropods]
>         by Bristlecone@webtv.net (Julia Alldredge)
>  17) Re:  The life of birds
>         by Tony Thulborn <paswamp@mailbox.uq.edu.au>
>  18) Re: [Re: polar sauropods]
>         by William Hinchman <bsaurus@bellatlantic.net>
>  19) Desperately Seeking Shantungosaurus
>         by "David C. Van Avery" <dcvanave@mailbox.syr.edu>
>  20) Re: Radiocarbon Dating
>         by "Allan Edels" <Edels@email.msn.com>
>  21) Re: [Re: polar sauropods]
>         by "M.Alan Kazlev" <akazlev@kheper.auz.com>
>  22) Re: polar sauropods
>         by John Bois <jbois@umd5.umd.edu>
>  23) My ten-year-old take on Alaskan hadrosaurs
>         by L Nyveen <lawrence@dsuper.net>
>  24) re: polar sauropods
>         by John Bois <jbois@umd5.umd.edu>
>  25) Re: [Re: polar sauropods]
>         by John Bois <jbois@umd5.umd.edu>
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