Re: Marine reptile reproduction

[Silvio Renesto <renesto@mailserver.unimi.it>]

At 23.24 23/11/02 +0800, dino_rampage@hotmail.com wrote:
> How did marine reptiles reproduce? Is there any evidence for live-bearing 
> in placodonts, "nothosaurs" & pachypleurosaurs?
There is a relatively old paper in Science by Sander (ref. not at hand, but 
I may search for) on a supposed nothosaurid embryo, and I have a 
(co-authored) paper accepted by JVP (I really don't  know when it will be 
out) in which an analysis of some tiny (very likely) embryos *may* support 
viviparity at least in some "nothosaurs".

> Cheers,

                                        Silvio Renesto


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