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Re: DINOSAURS ATE GRASS?



Well, if the dinosaurs were grazing on it, they probably overgrazed, so there might not really have been much grass around at any time.

Yours,
Dora Smith
Austin, TX
villandra@austin.rr.com
----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Bigelow" <bigelowp@juno.com>
To: <dinosaur@usc.edu>
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Subject: Re: DINOSAURS ATE GRASS?





On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 16:50:52 -0800 (PST) Vlad Petnicki
<bucketfoot-al@justice.com> writes:

Well, you'll still have to do your homework.
It will depend on which continent your scene is depicted.  Grass was not
a major flora (if at all) in North American Campanian and Maastrictian
ecosystems.  If it had been a common component, we would have already
found fossil impressions of these plants. (or perhaps already described
taxa have been misidentified?).