Re: Spinosaurs ate pterosaurs

[Tim Donovan <uwrk2@yahoo.com>]

Was the specimen found in a region where spinosaurs
were already known to exist e.g. Africa, or elsewhere?



--- bh480@scn.org wrote:
> From: Ben Creisler bh480@scn.org
> In case this item has not been mentioned here yet:
> 
> BUFFETAUT, ERIC, DAVID MARTILL & FRANÇOIS ESCUILLIÉ,
> 2004. 
> Pterosaurs as part of a spinosaur diet. Nature 430: 
> 33 
> (01 July 2004)
> A remarkable specimen has been discovered of an
> Early 
> Cretaceous pterosaur that has a tooth embedded in
> one of 
> its cervical vertebrae: the tooth has been
> identified as 
> one from a spinosaurid theropod dinosaur. This
> fossil is 
> direct evidence that spinosaurs included items other
> than 
> fish in their diet.
> 
> 
> 



        
                
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