Re: Speculative dino species

[christian farrell kammerer <cfkammer@midway.uchicago.edu>]

<<-- In the sea: I see domining mosasaurs and plesiosaurs.
Why not a huge mosasaur eating krill, with an adaptated big mouth?
Do we keep ophtalmosaurs?>>

Ichthyosaurs were long gone by the K/T (it seems that they and mosasaurs
didn't get along, so to speak.) Also, let us not get to reptiliocentric in
our understaning of the oceans--even before the K/T the teleost radiation
was well underway, and big fishes would likely still be prevalent
(and likely to beat the reptiles to the "whale" ecomorph). Maybe
ichthyodectiforms survived to challenge mosasaurs and pliosaurs for top
predators? It's not like they were far away from that status to begin
with... 

-Christian Kammerer