PALEO200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Allosaurus, Sinocalliopteryx, Mercedes Lackey

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Paleontology
• Course: PALEO200
• Professor: Angelica Torices

Document Summary

Types of eaters: carnivore like wolf- sharp teeth like canines. sharp claws. herbivores: flat teeth for vegetables. omnivores: have both. birds of prey like hawks owls eagles have recurved beaks, talons and very strong feet. carnivores: insectivore. Small like hedgehogs, sharp teeth to pierce through exoskeleton. lots fof birds eat insects and have triangular beaks. shore birds have long beaks to poke into mud and sand to eat invertebrate. =piscivores: once caught, not hard to kill and can be swallowed whole. don"t need strong jaws. have long jaws that reach far and shut quick. have sharp conical teeth to spear and hold onto fish. gharrial- persiv. crocodilian. Elongate tweezer like jaws, conical teeth that interlock. Piscivores have procumbent dentation: teeth point up at angle then straight up or down. allows front tips of jaws to impale a fish. not all piscivouris have teeth. loon has long beak.