Re: Nocturnal crocs?

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In a message dated 8/25/01 1:51:45 PM EST, jbois@umd5.umd.edu writes:

<< Yes.  I agree.  However, they exist in places that dinosaurs could
 not.  Grasslands and remote islands!  As such, they are limited to these
 places.  Another way of saying this is that extant dinosaurs are still
 excluded from their prior habitats: nesting grounds that provide no
 concealment. >>

Habitat is not the issue and doesn't determine what is or is not a dinosaur. 
Dinosaurs didn't exist in grasslands because there was no grass in the 
Mesozoic; had there been, dinosaurs surely would have lived in grasslands. 
They lived everywhere as far as we know, since practically every Mesozoic 
terrestrial deposit from Late Triassic to Late Cretaceous includes dinosaur 
fossils.