Re: CROCS, MAPS DIGEST

[chris brochu <cbrochu@fmppr.fmnh.org>]

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>>Does anybody have a ref for a GOOD publication (book or otherwise) that
>>deals with crocodilian FORELIMB myology.  Any help would be greatly
>>appreciated.
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The best work on the croc forelimb was done by Furbringer in the 1870's.
It's in German, but the plates are magnificent.  Gadow also published some
good descriptions - again, in German.  If you can find a copy of Reese'e
*The Alligator and Its Allies* (published around the time of the first
world war), he reproduced most of Gadow's plates.  Nothing even close to
them has been published since.


chris

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