Re: "Digging Dinosaurs"

["Larry Febo" <larryf@capital.net>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Allan Turner <trexturner@hotmail.com>
To: <larryf@capital.net>; <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 7:48 PM
Subject: Re: "Digging Dinosaurs"


> >Where did they tend to
> >nest. I have a copy of Horner`s "Digging Dinosaurs", but alas,....have
not
> >yet read it...8^(
>
> I read "Digging Dinosaurs" just recently and am under the impression that
> although the nesting sites excavated by Jack Horner and crew were along
what
> was an upper coastal plain (now the Willow Creek anticline) that doesn't
> necessarily imply that's what the dinosaurs favoured.  There's good
evidence
> to support nesting grounds in the upper plains only, but equally
important,
> there's not enough evidence to say absolutely they avoided the lowlands,
the
> deltas and whatnot.  As Horner pointed out (in a great fun book, by the
way)
> there could be no eggs in the wetter lower coastal plains simply because
the
> acidity of the waters would have hindered fossilization.
>
> Allan
>


That`s interesting because I was just wondering myself that if these dinos
did indeed lay their eggs in the "uplands", it seems there would be little
chance for their preservation due to erosion,.....no???