Spec needs a few stegosaurs. I didn't get around to writing up a full, scientific essay on them, but I managed to write this pseudo- news article. The recent...
ROTFL! ... LOL! Schlumpf is the German word for smurf. ... I get quote-mined! What an honor! :-D -- Der GMX SmartSurfer hilft bis zu 70% Ihrer Onlinekosten zu...
David Marjanovic
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Apr 1, 2008 1:24 pm
19680
... probably ... So.... Australidelpha is basically limited to p-bandicoots (being @ least 60(?) million years old IIRC in HE) and... what else?...
... recent ... Dr. Avril Poisson ... His colleague, If by colleague you mean throttle-worthy, arrogant, know-it-all pretty boy..... (I kid, David...;) Prof....
Oops. I knew I had forgotten to download something, yesterday and today again: the *Kryoryctes* paper. I hope I'll think of it tomorrow... ... There are no...
David Marjanovic
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Apr 1, 2008 9:49 pm
19683
Wow, that was all sorts of cool, Emile :D Incidentally, we DO need some sort of explanation of how spec stegosaurs snuffed it, as dravidosaurus, sans the...
... 8-O,8-O Well, er, it is Coniacian, some twenty million years before the end. That's quite a jump. Well, perhaps the Paleogene/Oligocene transistion, the ...
... News to me, was that in the paper of the *Djarthia* abstract? ... True enough. I forget, we have sparassodonts, polydolopoidomorphids, p-delphids and what...
... Oh. Yeah, that's another paper I have yet to read. <sigh> Perhaps we can get away with blaming it on the Great Indian Interchange that must have taken...
David Marjanovic
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Apr 2, 2008 12:49 am
19687
... *Titanostego* a giant 20-30 tonned *Augustinia* convergent!!!!! ____________________________________________________________________________________ You...
... stegosaurs ... indeed ... Interchange that ... conveniently, ... few ... known fossil ... the ... frogs, ... of what ... Well, given that stegosaurs seemed...
... Yes. This is a free online journal. You can read the whole paper for free, and IMHO you should :-) ... Of course everything else is p-. That's already...
David Marjanovic
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Apr 2, 2008 10:51 am
19690
In the new book Vertebrate Microfossil Assemblages (J.T. Sankey and S. Baszio, eds., Indiana U. Press) there is the following chapter... Currie, P.J. and Coy,...
David Marjanovic
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Apr 2, 2008 7:59 pm
19691
... they'd ... dinosaurian ... way ... I doubt any mammal is going to threaten stegosaurid hegemony (unless Spec paleogene India is _way_ stranger than we ever...
... free, ... Brain freeze on my part, I will do so. ... yes...C'est vrai, though I'd bet good money a xenarthroid might show up in Maastrichian strata...
... Given its absence in the Maastrichtian -- *Dravidosaurus* being Coniacian --, just ignore them. BTW, we don't seem to have access to the Journal of...
David Marjanovic
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Apr 2, 2008 11:58 pm
19694
... (cries, howls, gnashes teeth) Sigh, true enough. Dammit, just 20 million years to the border. Maybe something new out of India will show up. ... Good luck ...
... ...and swarming small-bodied mammalian herbivores out-compete the stegos, only for... ... ...to outcompete the mammals. {yes, that silliness just occured...
... hehe :-D What about small(or LARGE) bodied herbivorous land-crocs? Same scenario. Speaking of land-crocs, it increasingly seems that they might have been a...
... It's not a bone, it's a horny spur that comes out of the ankle and has no human homolog. Platypuzzesses have the usual 5 fingers and 5 toes per side....
David Marjanovic
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Apr 4, 2008 9:42 pm
19699
Dear speccers. It has come to my attention that we have undergone a primary focus on specmammals, as to a group to emphasise before we go into brief accounts...
... I think it's more because we shouldn't be all over the place in our discussions, as they then get free-ranging and go nowhere much. My hope is after I'm...
... Rather the other way around -- because, contrary to my imagination when I created the group for Spec, Cimolesta lacks the placental mode of reproduction...
David Marjanovic
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Apr 8, 2008 9:21 pm
19702
... Yup. So we could dismember cimolesta or keep them with marsupial-style reproduction. ... Two would just about do it for tingamarrs provided they're...
... Exactly. ... Hmmm... interesting idea, but might conflict with all those flightless birds we have there... ... Oops, yes. ... Scrotifera consists of...
David Marjanovic
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Apr 9, 2008 10:40 am
19704
... Well, put me in favor of dismembering. ... The gobblers are cursorial predators, and the gigaducks are browsers and grazers. The Bunyip (would need a new...
Carefully read just the last panel of http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0446.html (Or, of course, read the whole webcomic, starting at the beginning. Will ...
David Marjanovic
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Apr 10, 2008 12:14 am
19706
... wrote: Interesting ideas all on the Spec mammal radiations. The aquatic hyrax Tim was referring to may be *Kvabebihyrax*. Which, on-line at least, is ...
