Re: Heyday Of The Giants

[David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

> > The Cenomanian seems to have witnessed the largest sauropods, such as
> > Argentinosaurus and Paralititan, perhaps also Bruhathkayosaurus and 
> > others.
> > Why did these giants appear around the mid Cretaceous? Because there was
> > ample dry inland habitat? The Cenomanian transgression is said to have
> > reduced the latter, to the detriment of sauropods in North America.
>
> Bruhathkayosaurus is Maastrichtian.  Then there's the huge
> Kimmeridgian-Tithonian Morrison diplodocids, and the large Early Jurassic
> Moroccan femur and footprints...

The footprints from Morocco called *Breviparopus* are Middle Jurassic, 
aren't they?

The Cenomanian may well have been an interesting time for sauropods, but 
without a better Albian and Turonian record it's difficult to make 
comparisons.