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From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: What was the breviparopus?
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Date: Fri, 25-Oct-85 18:30:22 EST
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Posted: Fri Oct 25 18:30:22 1985
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In article <435@imsvax.UUCP> ted@imsvax.UUCP (Ted Holden) writes:
>
>  This creature was the 
>breviparopus, and the tracks indicate he was 160 feet long.  Using the 1.6
>to 1 ratio, cubed, and the 100 to 150 ton weight estimates for the ultrasaur,
>it would seem that the breviparopus weighed between 800,000 and 1,200,000 
>lbs.  Does anybody believe that such a thing could exist in our gravity?

	Yes, I see no reason why it couldn't. Besides your assumptions
in estimating the weight are questionable. The "ultrasaur" was a
brachiosaurid, and was thus among the heavier sauropods in terms of
bulk. If the Breviparopus were a diplodocid it would be considerably
lighter in build, and thus the square-cube law would *not* apply.
>
>A co-worker of mine has a theory as to how a Texas pterosaur, or Quetzalcoatlus
>Northropi could have lived in our gravity, assuming that the breviparopus also
>could have.  This would have involved a symbiotic relationship between the
>two in which, for a reasonable fee, the breviparopus would use its mighty
>tail to HURL the pterosaur up into the thermal currents, where it could 
>resume its gliding.

	Well, except that they did not live at the same time!!
-- 

				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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