Re: Pneumatization

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

Dinogeorge@aol.com wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 9/7/99 12:26:38 PM EST, jwillson@harper.cc.il.us writes:
> 
> << Interesting!  Anybody have a ref on this?  What about all the various
>  extinct crocodiloformes?  >>
> 
> Here are some Larry Witmer articles relevant to this discussion:
> 


Larry's articles are fantastic.  I would also add these:


Owen, R. 1850.  On the communications between the cavity of the tympanum
and the palate in the Crocodilia (gavials, alligator and crocodiles). 
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 27:521-527.

Simonetta, A.  1956.  Organogenesi e significato morfologico dei sistema
intertimpanico dei Crocodilia.  Archivio Italiano di Anatomia e di
Embriologia, 61:335-372.

van Beneden, E.  1882.  Recherches sur l'oreille moyenne des
crocodiliens et ses communications multiples avec le pharynx.  Archives
de Biologie, 3:497-561.

Walker, A.D.  1990.  A revision of Sphenosuchus acutus Haughton, a
crocodylomorph reptile from the Elliot Formation (Late Triassic or Early
Jurassic) of South Africa.  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal
Society of London B, 330:1-120.  (I disagree with the systematic
conclusions, but the descriptions are great.)

Wegner, R.N.  1957.  Die Nebenhvhlen der Nase bei den Krokodilen. 
Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift der Ernst Moritz Arnd-Universitdt, 7:1-39.



chris



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