Re: Carcharocles [Carcharodon] megalodon

[Aidan Karley <aidan_karley@yahoo.co.uk>]

In article <20050616020217.92504.qmail@web52910.mail.yahoo.com>, Jura 
wrote:
> As for time frame, I believe _C.megalodon_ died out 3
> mya. I don't know of any material younger than that.
> 
       Wasn't there a proposal a few years ago that the rise and 
decline of /C.megalodon/ was in concert with respectively the rise of 
whales large enough to be a good meal for a "super-predator", and the 
decline followed the rise of /Orca/ -like whales that could harass the 
baleen whales in their cold-water feeding areas? 
       
> Oh, and _C.megalodon_ would have so kicked _T.rex_'s
> butt. (*fulfillng mandatory dinosaur related topic
> :)*)
>
       OB-Dino: /C.megalodon/  may have kicked /T.rex's/ butt, in 
/C.meg's/ environment, but /T.rex/ would have chewed /C.meg's/ limbless 
butt in *it's* own environment.
       
-- 
 Aidan Karley,
 Aberdeen, Scotland,
 Location: 57°10' N,  02°09'  W (sub-tropical Aberdeen), 0.021233
 Written at Thu, 16 Jun 2005 07:56 +0100



                
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