Re: [BARYONYX] & Bipedalism

["John V Jackson" <jjackson@interalpha.co.uk>]

Well, If there weren't any "somewhat bipedal" crocs, that's even handier.

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Willis <pwillis@ozemail.com.au>
To: dinosaur@usc.edu <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Date: 09 April 1998 08:12
Subject: Re: [BARYONYX] & Bipedalism


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>>>  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?
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>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!).
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>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!).
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>Cheers,
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>Paul
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>
>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.
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