Re:mosasaur babies/no marine dinos

[KiernanCR@aol.com]

In a message dated 1/1/02 9:09:27 PM, jbois@umd5.umd.edu writes:

<< How would you compare metriorhynchids to mosasaurs
with regards fishy body style?
 >>

More derived metriorhynchids, such as _Metriorhynchus_, are perhaps in the 
same league as some of the less-derived mosasauroids (aigialosaurs, 
halisaurids, _Clidastes_) and I think it's a striking case of convergence. 
See Hua and Buffetaut (1997) for a review of the group (and of the other 
marine mesosuchians) with a detailed account of metriorhynchid marine 
adaptations.

Hua, S. and E. Buffetaut. 1997. Part V: Crocodylia - Introduction. pp. 
357-374 _in_ ANCIENT MARINE REPTILES, J. M. Callaway and E. L. Nicholls 
(eds.), Academic Press.

Caitlin R. Kiernan