RE: mosasaur babies/no marine dinos

[Jura <archosaur@reptilis.net>]

--- "Steve  Brusatte" <dinoland@lycos.com> wrote:
>>So it's possible that mosasaurs were also viviparous and not just the 
>>catch-all ovoviviparous.
>
>Yup, HP Ben Creisler just posted to the list a few days ago the citation of a 
>new paper regarding this topic:
>
>Caldwell, Michael W.& Michael S. Y. Lee 
>Live birth in Cretaceous marine lizards (mosasauroids). 
>Proceedings: Biological Sciences Volume: 268 Number: 1484 
>Page: 2397 -- 2401 
>
>Consult his post < 
>http://www.cmnh.org/fun/dinosaur-archive/2002Jan/msg00001.html> to read the 
>abstract.  Sort take: real interesting stuff.  I believe Gordon Bell published 
>a few similar papers in the past.
>
>Steve

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Yeah, he was the first to publish on live birth in mosasaurs back in 97/98 I 
believe. I remember going on a dig out in South Dakota the year after they 
found it. 

I believe it was a _Plioplatecarpus_.

Jura

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