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Re: Eagle eyes

To: cbrochu@fmnh.org
Subject: Re: Eagle eyes
From: dbensen <dbensen@gotnet.net>
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 07:51:16 -0800
Cc: dinosaur@usc.edu
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>>Palpebrals are present nearly universally among crocodilians (and have a very 
>>broad
distribution among crocodyliforms). <<
Did the crocodyliforms evolve the bones independently from dinosaurs, or did the
ornithopods retain the feature while the rest of the dinosaurs lost it?

>>No one really knows what they do, but there is a general correlation between
palpebral size and snout shape.<<

Might they have had some sort of structural function?

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