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filter feeding herps

To: dinosaur@usc.edu
Subject: filter feeding herps
From: chris brochu <cbrochu@fmppr.fmnh.org>
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:06:06 -0600
Reply-to: cbrochu@fmppr.fmnh.org
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Gang,
        Regarding the recent discussion of filter-feeding herps in the
Mesozoic..

        There have been suggestions that Stomatosuchus, a very strange croc
from the Late K of Egypt, was a filter feeder.  This would have been a
Deinosuchus-sized animal, had a kick-board shaped skull, an edentulous
jaw, and a flange running along the outline of the mandible that Nopcsa
interpreted as support for a gular sack, as in a baleen whale.  Alas,
all known material of Stomatosuchus was lost during World War II.


chris



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