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Re: The function of gastroliths



On Wed, 20 Dec 2006, David Marjanovic wrote:
Ornithomimosaurs, oviraptorosaurs (at least *Caudipteryx*): Instead of chewing, as in birds.

Sauropods: Not.

http://www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk/(b41ka4rqduxbx155tatzc4mw)/app/home/contribution.asp?referrer=parent&backto=issue,11,45;journal,1,316;linkingpublicationresults,1:102024,1

I don't have access; I found out via this science news service http://www.wissenschaft.de/wissen/news/273108.html (in German) which mentions that sauropods may have _actually eaten_ stones for minerals.

If not for a gastric mill, then perhaps ingestion was incidental. Are any coproliths known to be from sauropods, and if so, are such stones present in them?