Re: Drinker and Oryctodromeus (was Re: Dinosaurs burrowed to keep warm)

["franklin e. bliss" <frank@blissnet.com>]

Delurking for a moment.

Speculation aside, don't count on too many spiny dinosaurs being  
burrowers.  Spines usually only go one way into a hole and backing  
out isn't very easy.  No reverse gear is a bad thing. Thumb spikes,  
large claws and heavy forearms would have been handy "gardening"  
tools however. Regarding burrow raiders, build a niche, and they will  
come but then, the home owners invented the "back door".

Field season is starting on the high plains of Wyoming/Montana.  A  
couple dozen misc. loose teeth came out the other day from a HC  
microsite in less than an hour. Now I am looking for that elusive  
burrowing Pachycephalosaur :>

Frank (Rooster) Bliss
MS Biostratigraphy
Weston, Wyoming
www.wyomingdinosaurs.com
On Mar 22, 2007, at 2:21 PM, Jura wrote:

> --- Tommy Bradley <htomsirveaux@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > As long as we're speculating, perhaps the very
> > large
> > > forearms and "hands" of deinocheires and some
> > others
> > > were used for digging up small burrowers.
> > >
> > > The tyrannosaurs could follow the diggers around
> > and
> > > scavenge the remains.
> > >
> > > Glen Ledingham
> >
> > That's a good notion.  This thread has really opened
> > up the speculation
> > floodgates!
> > I'm starting to think that maybe *Deinocheirus*
> > could've been a
> > "Dino-burrow-digger-outer" specialist.  Is it
> > possible that some Dinosaurs
> > specialized in this way?
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> Personally, I think that this idea is a better
> scenario for _Deinocheirus_ than the previous thoughts
> of it being a termite eater. It's hard to imagine a
> multi-tonne animal living off of termites, without
> wiping out an entire colony everytime it got hungry.
>
> Well, maybe if there were some nasty big termites back
> then.
>
> Hmm, if only the graboids from Tremors were real. Then
> we might speculate that _Deinocheirus_ was actually a
> giant worm hunter. :)
>
> Jason
>
> "I am impressed by the fact that we know less about many modern  
> [reptile] types than we do of many fossil groups." - Alfred S. Romer
>
>
>
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