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Re: Lack of Sauropod Gastroliths - legal tender



--- Mr Christopher Glen <s370548@student.uq.edu.au>
wrote:

> so not only did dinosaurs invent flight before
> humans, they beat us to inventing currency too?
> 
> Chris Glen
> (soon to return back to Australia, currently at
> Berkeley)


No, actually it was the metriorynchosaurs, who started
using sand dollars for purchasing prey from primitive
(and easily swindled) icthyosaurs during the Late
Triassic.... the icthyies' focal abilities didn't work
well out of water, and they couldn't discern 20's from
10's.

--Mark   


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