Re: P/T extinction linked to global warming

["Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>]

David Marjanovic (david.marjanovic@gmx.at) wrote:

<However... what if the dicynodont maxilla is actually a ceratopsian 
premaxilla? Even without *Serendipaceratops*, this would be less bizarre
than a K dicynodont.>

  Well, for starters, the authors of the study, Thulborn and Turner, note
that the bone (identified as a maxilla) has a large procumbent tusk in it,
lacking in any dinosaur save *Heterodontosaurus.* The CT anatomy shows
herring-bone banding of dentine with a characteristic interface seen also
in *Dinodontosaurus.* Similar, as noted nearly identical maxillae are
known from Antarctica and are accepted as dicynodont, including referral
to *Lystrosaurus.* There is no side of a lateral or ventral tomus to
indicate the prescence of a near-concordant cutting edge with the bone,
either rostral or caudal to the tusk. In it's anatomy, it appears to
perfectly coincide with dicynodont anatomy.

  I have the paper if anyone is interested.

  Cheers,

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Jaime A. Headden

  Little steps are often the hardest to take.  We are too used to making leaps 
in the face of adversity, that a simple skip is so hard to do.  We should all 
learn to walk soft, walk small, see the world around us rather than zoom by it.

"Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth." --- P.B. Medawar (1969)


        
                
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