... After more thought, I realized - what are you doing with the Australasian "hypsies?" My thoughts... The true "hypsies" of Oz, the piggy-beaks and the...
... individual ... comparing ... family a ... great. We need better clarifications. ... pictures ... Exactly. It's actually a pretty simple matter of spacing. ...
... euclasaurs ... browsing ... with ... Well, I was thinking of grouping things much along these lines -"Gondwanaornithopoda" ... \--Antarctiornithopodea ... ...
... So, you're saying that "Euclasaurdea" becomes a group only for the smaller species of the current clade of that name? It could work, except the larger...
... Brian's ... Mind ... the ... name I will see what I can do here. ... two - ... Late ... agreed, It's pretty much open ground here... ... Madagascar ... ...
I'm totally raping Brian's original idea, but this makes the most sense to me... The thyreophorans, the armored dinosaurs, evolved in the early Jurassic and...
... Right now I think it's just Raymond and I (David is apparently on a dig site in Poland from what I read on DML), but it sounds fine as far as I'm...
... Not a remnant, sorry, a cosmopolitan species. ... the advantage would obvioulsy have been the addition of a super-flexible "false-neck" try and turn down...
... And I'm shamefully cheering it on. This kills several birds with one stone. Last thyreophorans, ancient antillians etc. Some notes, the stegosaurs didn't...
... Then why taniwha? Or were the first specimens collected around Aoteroa? Does Aoteroa have a greater than normal population? (Playing Ice Queen Advocate...
... If you want to bring back the plesiosaurs as a clade, be my guest, but bring them back as a group, not as a one off thing. Can you think of a single...
... I wasn't referring to Dravidosaurus here - I thought that was thought to be a Plesiosaur - but have read about other fragmentary Ankylosaur fossils from...
So, I was looking over these essays for a new round of "spec mapping" and noticed a few things which need to be edited. Mainly having to do with habitats. ......
... I also went over this essay with more of a fine-toothed comb. It looks good, except that you described a ton of North American and European/Near Eastern...
... Well, we need a versatile, cold tolerant species at least, to be able to be alike a leatherback turtle. and we need a gracile tropical species, and a small...
... *Solenodon*? OK, there are (or at least were until the late 20th century)two species (S. cubanus and S. paradoxus), but I think it is the last survivor of...
... I thought about them, as well as the Tuatara (though there are two, and were recently three, species in that genus), but those particular cases aren't...
... Why wouldn't a real leatherback be present in Spec? The family goes back 110 million years on HE, had giant LK representatives (Archelon), and was one of...
... Morris" ... able ... goes ... (Archelon), ... I think Tim meant that the elasmosauroid would be cold tolerant like the leatherback turtle. Which is not a...
... Thanks for the link, for some reason I couldn't find the page for some time. ... But beerats are written as if they are a strictly arboreal group. Since...
... that ... Okay. BTW, I'm abandoning the gondwanan ornithischians until I can get some better ideas in my head. I want to group the giant euclasaurs,...
... From: "Tim Morris" <tdmorris@...> Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 12:14 PM ... Yes, except I'm not sure there should be a single species (but...
David Marjanovic
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Aug 11, 2008 11:48 am
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... Kogia has been elevated to its own family now, but it's still reasonably close. ... I don't know how many people have heard of this species before though. ...
... Yeah, it's difficult as the latest K record is so awful in Gondwana if you're not interested in Titanosaurs or Abelisaurs. As an aside, I've been wondering...
... That appears to be the case, yes. ... I'd say it's unsettled as of yet, but I'd lean towards no. More likely these mineralized plates (or cartilage...