Re: paleoart idea!

[Stanley Friesen <sarima@ix.netcom.com>]

At 10:39 AM 8/25/99 -0600, Caleb Lewis wrote:
>Hey, all you paleoartists out there:
>
>      Here's an idea that I just thought up:
>
>         
>There's a T.Rex hiding in some trees at the outskirts of the forest, and his
>camoflouge helps him to stay invisisble. Meanwhile, a group of sauropods come
>up and start browsing, totally unaware of the danger. Then, with the
>sauropods' necks nicely exposed to him, the t. rex lunges out for an easy
>kill. Now, you can paint whatever part of this story that you want, the
>iminent danger, or the lunging, but don't ya all think it would be a neat
>painting?

Fairly nice idea, but I suggest a change in the lineup.  The only sauropod
that *might* have met a T. rex was the rather smallish _Alamosaurus_, and
it lived in the rather more arid southern parts of North America, where a
forest might be unlikely.

Two possibilities:  use _Allosaurus_ instead of T.rex, as that was
contemporaneous with many species of sauropod, or use _Edmontosaurus_
instead sauropods, as they were probably the main prey item of T.rex.

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