RE: When carnivores kill other carnivores...

["Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <tholtz@geol.umd.edu>]

> From: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu [mailto:owner-dinosaur@usc.edu]On Behalf Of
> Michael Mortimer
> Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 6:02 PM
> To: dinosaur@usc.edu
> Subject: RE: When carnivores kill other carnivores...
>
> I think it was probably the norm to have multiple large theropod species in 
> the kinds of environments which preserve fossils.  The exception being 
> Maastrichtian Western North America and Campanian-Maastrichtian Asia, which 
> seem to only have single species of tyrannosaurine (unless you include 
> omnivorous/herbivorous taxa).

That sounds awfully familiar... :-)

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