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Re: Herbivorous Diet in an Ornithomimid
Steve Brusatte wrote:
>
> Hey,
> I just caught a message that mentioned an article being published in
> tomorrow's edition of Nature that states that 12 ornithomimid dinosaurs were
> found in China with gastroliths. This suggested a herbivorous diet.
Just like all of those lovable herbivorous crocodilians? I would assume that the
presence of gastroliths in ornithomimosaurs had more to do with their
toothlessness than herbivory. A lot of birds that use gastroliths are omnivores,
not just strick vegetarians. Have any oviraptorosaur gastroliths ever been
found?
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Dann Pigdon
GIS Archaeologist
Melbourne, Australia
Australian Dinosaurs:
http://www.geocities.com/capecanaveral/4459/
http://www.alphalink.com.au/~dannj
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