Re: Montanazdarcho, Geology, and snake refs

["Toby White" <mwhite@houston.rr.com>]

On snakes:

Aquatic origin:

Caldwell, MW (1999), Squamate phylogeny and the relationships of snakes and
mosasauroids. Zool. J. Linnean Soc. 125: 115-147

Caldwell, MW (2000), On the phylogenetic relationships of Pachyrachis
within snakes: a response to Zaher (1998). J. Vert. Paleontol. 20: 187-190.

Caldwell, MW & MSY Lee (1997), A snake with legs from the marine Cretaceous
of the Middle East. Nature 386: 705-709.

Lee, MSY (1997a), The phylogeny of varanoid lizards and the affinities of
snakes. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B 352: 53-91.

Lee, MSY, MW Caldwell & JD Scanlon (1999), A second primitive marine snake:
Pachyophis woodwardi from the Cretaceous of Bosnia-Herzegovina. J. Zool.
London 248: 509-520.

Scanlon, JD & MSY Lee (2000), The Pleistocene serpent Wonambi and the early
evolution of snakes. Nature 403: 416-420

Fossorial Origin:

Tchernov, E, O Rieppel, H Zaher, MJ Polcyn & LL Jacobs (2000), A fossil
snake with limbs. Science 287: 2010-2012

Zaher, H (1998), The phylogenetic position of Pachyrachis within snakes
(Squamata, Lepidosauria). J. Vert. Paleontol. 18: 1-3.

Rieppel, O & H Zaher (2000), The braincases of mosasaurs and Varanus, and
the relationships of snakes. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 129: 489-514

See http://home.houston.rr.com/vnotes/notes/Serpentes.html (ssp! :) )

--Toby White

The Vertebrate Notes at:
http://home.houston.rr.com/vnotes/index.html and
http://www.dinodata.net



----- Original Message -----
From: "Morgan Churchill" <mmcjawa@yahoo.com>
To: "Dinosaur Mailing list" <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 4:50 PM
Subject: Montanazdarcho, Geology, and snake refs


>
> Well, instead of having to type out 3 different question messages, I am
going to try to condense them into one message:
>
> Montanazdarcho:  Does anyone know the species name?  the Dinosauricon
doesn't list it, and the Pterosaur webpage seems to be MIA.  Also, is this
the pterosaur known from two medicine formation?
>
> Geology:
>
> Currently, I am in the Zoology program at Michigan State, but plan on
working in Paleontology.  the master plan is to go to University of
Chicago, and their paleontology program seems to be more "Biology" based.
I was wondering if I might be screwing up by not going into the Geology
program instead, which I know another person who also is interested in
paleontology is working in  Will their be a huge difference between the
bachelors degrees in the two programs, as far as Paleontology is concerned.
(I realize I will probably have to take Geology classes if I go the zoology
route, but am not sure how many)
>
> Also, If anyone can point out any really good ref's dealing with a marine
origin for snakes and the Pythonomorpha, I would be extremely thankful
>
> A thankyou in advance, especially in these trying hours, and you can
reply offlist if you would prefer
>
>
>
>
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