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Re: CROCODYLOMORPH ENDOTHERMY

To: Multiple recipients of list <dinosaur@lepomis.psych.upenn.edu>
Subject: Re: CROCODYLOMORPH ENDOTHERMY
From: Dinogeorge@aol.com
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 22:36:14 -0500
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In a message dated 96-01-26 20:34:08 EST, pharrinj@PLU.edu (Nicholas J.
Pharris) writes:

>> Predator-prey ratios
>> are virtually meaningless as far back as the Triassic; there are
tremendous
>> collection and preservational biases that confound any analysis. 
>
>Proof?

The most-collected Triassic terrestrial predators are parasuchians
(phytosaurs). Are you willing to say that most Triassic terrestrial predators
were parasuchians? Incidentally, these were also sprawling-to-semi-erect
crurotarsan thecodontians. Were they endotherms, too?

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