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RE: PARTICULAR sauropods aquatic?

To: "dinosaur@usc.edu" <dinosaur@usc.edu>, Matthew Bonnan <mbonnan@hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: PARTICULAR sauropods aquatic?
From: "Norton, Patrick" <Patrick.Norton@state.me.us>
Date: 02 Sep 1999 13:21:02 -0400
Reply-to: Patrick.Norton@state.me.us
Sender: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu

Matt Bonnan wrote, in part:

<The huge morphological difference in the forefoot (manus) and hindfoot   
(pes) of sauropods sets them apart from elephants which have feet both   
fore and aft that are of similar construction.>

I presume that this difference can be at least partly explained by the   
bipedal stage in the ancestry of sauropods; a stage that is absent from   
the evolutionary history of elephants (at least as far as I know).

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