Re: Sauropod necks????

[frank bliss <frank@blissnet.com>]

There are also lots of clams/oysters/pelecypods spread appropriately 
throughout the different facies in the Hell Creek (upper most K)  too 
though my particular section of HC does not have them.  Phil's website 
list them in a nicely organized manner.
 http://www.scn.org/~bh162/hellcreek2.html

If there is a food source out there, somebody probably took advantage 
of it.   There has been speculation that some of the bigger mammals 
also chewed up fresh water pelecypods as indicated by tooth wear.

Frank Bliss
MS Biostratigraphy
Weston, Wyoming


On May 20, 2005, at 5:00 PM, Danvarner@aol.com wrote:

> d_ohmes@yahoo.com writes:
>
> <<  (Someone even invented a
> hypothetical mollusc to account for the big  guys
> ability to sustain themselves...) >>
>
> Non-hypothetical unionid bivalves are abundant in the Morrison. Holland
> wasn't  "inventing" anything. Their remnants have even been found in 
> sauropod
> ichnites.  Need a reference? :
> http://rock.geosociety.org/absindex/annual/1999/50287.htm
>
> DV