Re: What marine reptiles ate

[Danvarner@aol.com]

In a message dated 6/28/99 12:20:17 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
majestic_cheese@yahoo.com writes:

<< OK, so they weren't dinosaurs.  I'm not on vert paleo.
 
 Can anyone recommend articles in any of the journals
 which include good evidence of what the topical marine
 reptile specie(s) ate?  Solid evidence (pardon the
 expression), not conjecture.
  >>

     I thought marine reptiles and pterosaurs were honorary dinosaurs. 
    Try Judy Massare's _Tooth morphology and prey preference of Mesozoic 
marine reptiles._Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 7(121-137) 1987 and that 
paper's bibliography. Dan Varner.