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From: ted@imsvax.UUCP (Ted Holden)
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Subject: What was the breviparopus?
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Date: Wed, 16-Oct-85 18:05:49 EDT
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My apologies to anyone who has seen this article more than once.  We
experienced major problems with usenet in the D.C. area around Sept. 15,
when the CVL computer at U. Md. was taken down with no warning to anyone
below it on usenet (which is most of the D.C. area).  For about three weeks,
nothing got through one way or the other, and all of our postings were
presumed lost.


It is well known that most dinosaurs are known only by their tracks, that
we have the bones of less than half of them.  The Avon Field Guide to
Dinosaurs describes tracks found in Morocco of a creature much larger than
even the ultrasaur, which I like to talk about.  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?

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.  This theory makes more sense to me than anything I have
seen from the UT astro dept. concerning pterosaurs.  I would like to suggest
that anyone who cannot live with my theory regarding lesser gravity consider
this theory as an alternative.