Sauropod diets: WAS Re: Interest in dinosaurs

["Peter Von Sholly" <vonrex@gte.net>]

This brings up an interesting question; why are we so sure that saurpods
were strictly herbiverous?    

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> From: Stanley Friesen <sarima@ix.netcom.com>
> 
> However, on of the letters in this series reminded me of something that
my
> young niece Eryn said some years ago.  At a store selling various sundry
> dinosaur models, her mother (my sister) suggested buying a particular
> "brontosaurus" model.  Eryn refused it because "longnecks aren't
> meat-eaters".  (I am sure we have *all* seen this particular hideous, and
> cheaply made, model of a sharp toothed sauropod).