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Re: CROCODYLOMORPH ENDOTHERMY

In a message dated 96-01-25 17:47:56 EST, pharrinj@PLU.edu (Nicholas J.
Pharris) writes:

>I'm also not convinced that ectotherms would need or could use "long, 
>erect limbs and tall bodies," hence my suspicion that these features 
>evolved in endothermic crocodilian predecessors (and that all other 
>animals which show these feautures--other thecodontians, all dinosaurs, 
>and all therapsids, including mammals--were/are also endothermic to one 
>degree or another).
>
>

So extant crocodylians are secondarily ectothermic??