Re: Walking With Dinosaurs Skin TExtures

[Dann Pigdon <dannj@alphalink.com.au>]

NJPharris@aol.com wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 4/11/2000 12:54:28 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> rowe@psych.ucsb.edu writes:
> 
> > http://www.dinosaur.org/walkingwithhorley03.htm
> 
> My major problems are with the sidebar:
> 
> _Koolasuchus_ is an amphibian, not a dinosaur.
> 
> _Peteinosaurus_ is a pterosaur, not a dinosaur.
> 
> Can't think just what _Steropodon_ is, but it ain't a dinosaur.

It's a marsupial (perhaps an early platypus) from the Early Cretaceous of
Lightning Ridge. It was one of the giants of Mesozoic mammals (about cat-sized).

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