Re: plesiosaur offspring (weak necks?)

[Danvarner@aol.com]

dannj@alphalink.com.au (Dann Pigdon) writes:

<< Who'd have thought that a multi-tonne elephant seal could move so fast
on land - or at all for that matter? Nature has a way of surprising you.

Although that said, having such a long neck as an elasmosaur would seem
to preclude them from trips on land. Perhaps smaller pliosaurs were not
as restricted though. >>

       Sorry to repeat for the umpteenth time... Plesiosaurs (pliosaurs 
included, large and small) had a limb configuration completely different from 
marine turtles and  multi-tonne elephant seals (otters, voles and newts, for 
that 
matter). They had remarkably plesiosaur-looking limbs that worked in a 
plesiosaur manner. Again, Oceans of Kansas has a myriad of photos and drawings 
one can 
examine and compare. DV