Re: Yet more fun with squamate phylogeny

[Michael Habib <mhabib5@jhmi.edu>]

> The teeth look like a boa's.

What do you mean by that, precisely?


> Madtsoiidae is mentioned to be "presumed to be constrictors 
> ecologically analogous to living pythons and boas", followed by a long 
> string of references. Don't ask me why they co-occurred with pythons, 
> then...

They could be analogous in many ways to pythons and still co-occur with 
them.  Pythons co-occur with each other, after all.  Or did the authors 
specifically suggest some sort of replacement phenomenon?

Thanks for the post, I'll read the paper this afternoon; quite exciting!

Cheers,

--Mike Habib