Re: Some Observations on Nyctosaurus

["Jaime Headden" <ja_headden@qilong.8m.com>]

<Have you looked yet at the existing estimates of flow velocity that near the 
center of the gyre?  From memory, I believe the author
is Rudy Slingerland, but please don't hold me to that.>

  I will, for you'd be correct. I had to research a tad for this. 
Paleooceanography is not my thing, so I never had to look to this,
but this appears to be in prep data as Slingerland's page at Penn State does 
not list this topic, and some news reports apparently
show him being cautious with his statements. I don't know. But it seems that 
the eastern shore of the sea should flow northward in
the anticyclonic Northern gyre, so alignment of the bones, if effects at the 
seafloor parallel the mid-ocean or surface conditions
(as suggested by transport of the bones in a directional flow), would be 
expected to follow this. When Chris gets back from SVP,
maybe we can get some information on this topic?

  Cheers,

  Jaime A. Headden

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