FW: Dinosaurs, bodysize and landmass area

["Steve Salisbury" <steve_salisbury@bigpond.com>]

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From: "Steve Salisbury" <steve_salisbury@bigpond.com>
To: archosaur@reptilis.net
Subject: Re: Dinosaurs, bodysize and landmass area
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 7:16 PM



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>From: Jura <archosaur@reptilis.net>
>Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 3:20 PM

> --- "David Marjanovic" <david.marjanovic@gmx.at> wrote:
>>> > Yeah, a scene of a _Quinkana_ chasing a mesosuchian up a tree,
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>>What "mesosuchian"?
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> ++++++++++++++++++
>
> I don't know the name, but I've seen it mentioned on a few sites on
> prehistoric Australia, along with some comments by HP/FP (former poster)
> Paul Willis on the subject. All I remember is that it is a mesosuchian and
> that it may have been arboreal.

That'd be Mekosuchus (a type of mekosuchine crocodyloid).  I'll leave the
arboreal  bit up to Paul . . .


Steve




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