Re: Cretaceous taeniodont

["K and T Dykes" <ktdykes@arcor.de>]

Hi David,

"And then there's always *Repenomamus*, bigger than any of the three and
roughly 50 million years older, and coexisting with *Gobiconodon* which
reached the above dimensions."

My data isn't very good on dimensions, and perhaps you've got better
sources.  As far as I know, Repenomamus had a skull length of 10cm plus.
That's the only well-sourced measurement I've got available.

For Didelphodon vorax I've got proper papers which offer 'badger-sized',
whatever that might mean.  It could be they're referring to different
badgers.  I just nipped down to the cellar and measured our European one.
Head to tail its bodylength is 75cm, (and the tail's short).

Purely based upon the info I've got, I'd be surprised if Repenomamus
could've got beyond 50cm, and I suspect that length is generous.  If nothing
else, it makes a change from the length of sauropods.

Should anyone be in the neighbourhood, the only specimen of Schowalteria is
most definitely in The Royal Tyrrell Museum.
Cheers
Trevor