Re: [BARYONYX] & Bipedalism

[pwillis@ozemail.com.au (Paul Willis)]

>>  When looking over the history
>>of crocodiles, their current exclusive restriction to water is misleading.
>>In the past crocs have had a ball of a time on the land, on more than one
>>occassion, and don't forget that one of my little buggers may even have
>>been climbing trees. >
>
>That's handy.  Are they closely related to the somewhat bipedalist crocs?


Bipedalist crocs? Am I that out of touch with the literature? What
bipedalist crocs? was it the result of some nasty accident or something?
Perhaps that what Baryonyx ate - croc legs! (It's been a long day, please
for give me!).

No, all the ancestors I know of for Mekosuchus the arboreal croc had four
legs (except those with fins, but that's going back a bit too far!).



Cheers,

Paul


Dr Paul M.A. Willis
Consulting Vertebrate Palaeontologist
Quinkana Pty Ltd
pwillis@ozemail.com.au

Interesting fact:
Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was
host of "Lorne Greene's Wild Kingdom.