re: Kansas Elasmosaur

["Sherry Michael" <_smichael@excite.com>]

In a message dated 7/6/99 9:45:25 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
majestic_cheese@yahoo.com writes:

<<  I've always wondered how these
odd creatures avoided being ingested by the local
pliosaur/mosasaur tough guys.  >>

Maybe they were too busy munching on ammonites? They may have been a heck of
a lot easier to crunch then chasing down a elasmosaur that could fight back.
It is clear some mosasaurs like Globidens evolved just to smash ammonites.
Ammonites where a heck of a lot more abundant than elasmosaurs, too. The
larger mosasaurs may have hunted elasmosaurs regularly- I can see a Tylosaur
eating whatever it wanted, including smaller mosasaurs.

-Sherry Michael




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