Re: Leedsichthys.

[Jonkeria@aol.com]

In a message dated 9/18/98 4:33:04 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
Dinogeorge@AOL.COM writes:

<< Dan Varner wrote:<< Dave Martill visited Berkeley about ten years ago and
was talking about
  this material to Mike Greenwald, who was collections manager there at the
  time. Mike wrote to me about 100 foot long fish and pliosaurs with teeth the
  size of "mortar shells!". Got my attention. >>
 
 This is one big mother fish. Gill rakers were once mistaken for stegosaur
 plates (_Lexovisaurus durobrivensis_).>>

You know, one might think that stegosaurs of all things would be hard to
confuse with sea creatures. I mean, thick, powerful legs, armor all over the
back and tail, beak and herbivore's teeth, and so on with features very
difficult to imagine existing in the open ocean. But with Dravidosaurus and
now hearing this....

-Christian Kammerer

P.S.-On the topic of confusion between land and sea animals, wasn't there word
of some sort of aquatic giant sloth a few years back? Someone just mentioned
it to me one day and I never heard of it again. Thalassocnus, wasn't it? Was
this some sort of grievous error or joke made by the edentate workers, or
what?