Re: Speculative dino species

["T. Mike Keesey" <tmk@dinosauricon.com>]

On Sat, 28 Jul 2001, aspidel wrote:

> Well... Now I try to reply some of HP dino-listers...
>
> --- In the sea: I see domining mosasaurs and plesiosaurs.
> Why not a huge mosasaur eating krill, with an adaptated big mouth?

There is a krill-eating pliosaur in Dougal Dixon's _The New Dinosaurs: An
Alternate Zoology_. This book (which may be flawed but is still
fascinating) and Greg Paul's criticism of this book should be required
reading for anyone involved in this idea.

> Do we keep ophtalmosaurs?

No -- ichthyosaurs died out during the Cretaceous.

> --- Hypsilodontids:(to HP Dan) I meant some species adaptated to cold winter
> like _Laellynasaura_, OTHER hypsilodontids in the Far Norht as in the Far
> South, becoming more abundant during the Ice Age.

You have again practically recreated an animal from _The New Dinosaurs_.

> --- Do we keep fishing spinosaurs?

There is no record that they made it to the end of the Cretaceous.

One thing to remember here is that the fauna of Asiamerica was quite
different from that of the rest of the world during the Maastrichtian.
Let's not forget the abelisaurs!

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