J.S.’s Reviews > Dinosaurs Without Bones > Status Update

Any former food item... Is called a bromalite. Bromalites include enterolites (stomach contents), cololites (intestinal contents), gastroliths, regurgitalites (puke), and coprolites (poop). Emetolite is... For a regularly regurgitated deposit, such as a cough pellet.

[Tiny scratch marks], called microwear, were scored on dinosaur teeth when they chewed plants containing silica or plants with grit on them. The grit would have consisted of silica-rich minerals such as quarts... [which] is harder than the mineral apatite,... [which] composes vertebrate teeth and bones.

In the initial submission of the report, authors are welcome to suggest potential reviewers who they think would give fair, thorough, and relatively impartial assessments of your work. Authors can also state who should *not* review it... Then if the article is accepted, authors must revise it, formatting each and every cited reference to the exasperatingly exact and idiosyncratic standards of that specific journal.

...the case for burrowing dinosaurs was not helped in that one of the first to publicly propose it was the bombastically flamboyant and iconoclastic gadfly of dinosaur paleontology, Robert Bakker. The popularity of his book stemmed in part from his gleefully sticking fingers, toes, and other appendages into the eyes of stodgy paleontologists who viewed dinosaurs as up-scaled, dull, cold-blooded variations on lizards.

Ideally, dinosaurs can be correlated with about six broad groups: theropods (bipedal), prosauropods (bipedal and quadripedal), sauropods (quadripedal), ornithopods (bipedal and quadripedal), thyreophorans (stegosaurs, ankylosaurs, and nodosaurs-quadripedal), and marginocephalians (pachycephalosaurs and ceratopsians-quadripedal).