Re: dinosaur inspiration

[Jeffrey Martz <martz@holly.ColoState.EDU>]

Rob Meyerson wrote:

> I concentrate on the theropods for one reason, if we can determine the
> metabolism of the predators, we can safely assume a similar metabolism
> for the herbivores.

       I might also point out that endothermy developed in somewhere in 
the theropod dinosaur lieage.  WHether or not this occured in birds, a 
particular small theropod lineage, theropods as a whole, or dinosaurs as 
a whole (I even recall someone suggecting Archosaurs as a whole, with 
crocodilians being secondarily ectothermic) is open to debate.  However, 
it is still possible that there was a metabolic split within the 
dinosauria.

LN Jeff