Note 12 — Chapter V · ToC

Professor Williston makes the following criticism of this theory:

"I cannot agree with this view—the animals must have laid their eggs upon land—for the reason that reptile eggs cannot hatch in water. S.W.W."

But with deference to Williston's high authority I may note that there is no evidence that the Sauropoda were egg-laying reptiles. They, or some of them, may have been viviparous like the Ichthyosaurus.