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Re: mosasaur babies/no marine dinos

To: david.marjanovic@gmx.at
Subject: Re: mosasaur babies/no marine dinos
From: Tony Canning <tonyc@foe.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 16:39:37 +0000
Cc: The Dinosaur Mailing List <dinosaur@usc.edu>
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David Marjanovic wrote:
> Maybe it's impossible to evolve viviparity when a calcified egg shell has
> evolved. Don't know why, but it hasn't happened so far... unless the
> suggestion that hesperornithiforms were viviparous is correct :-)
> Is there a viviparous gecko?

Yes, in New Zealand, eg Hoplodactylus

See

Rock, J., Andrews, R.M. & Cree, A. (2000) Effects of reproductive
condition, 
season and site on selected temperatures of a viviparous gecko. Physiol.
Biochem.
Zool. 73:344-355

Tony Canning

References:
- Re: mosasaur babies/no marine dinos
  - From: John Bois <jbois@umd5.umd.edu>
- Re: mosasaur babies/no marine dinos
  - From: "David Marjanovic" <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>

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