Since I CAN'T reply to the DML.. Mickey M wrote... Ever heard of the Mesozoic theropod Novacaesareaia? << Yep, I have it listed on my web site....
Tracy Ford
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Oct 8, 2005 4:08 am
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http://www.oceansofkansas.com/Temp7.html (Kindly disregard the mention of a "flexible" neck.) Looks like the elasmosaurs were those plesiosaurs that were...
David Marjanovic
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Oct 8, 2005 7:37 pm
9141
... maybe they don't have any fossils* after the Pal-Eocene boundary, but their extinction is believed to have been from competition from Spec-extant marine ...
... maybe they don't have any fossils* after the Pal-Eocene boundary, but their extinction is believed to have been from competition from Spec-extant marine ...
... Von: Edgar segovia <souhjiro_reloaded@...> ... What would those species be, and where was the elasmosaur-free zone in which they must have evolved? ...
David Marjanovic
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Oct 10, 2005 4:19 pm
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... If I may ask, what would keep the elasmosaurs from competing with the long-necked aquatic birds? or with the marine monotremes? it's a nice idea, I like...
... boundary, but ... in ... so, we can throw away the Smoochers, the Mosarks, and the Hespy- derived critters? ... no worries; twas only throwing ideas. ... ...
... Those simply don't count. Look at the size difference. The neck of *Elasmosaurus* was 7 m long! *Hesperornis* as a whole only reached something like 1.5 m...
David Marjanovic
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Oct 10, 2005 6:46 pm
9147
... the ... but the descendants of *Hesperornis* might be considerably bigger. (look how the ceratopsians of Spec have grown, as an example) ... army mice! ...
... the ... but the descendants of *Hesperornis* might be considerably bigger. (look how the ceratopsians of Spec have grown, as an example) But......the...
... with ... of ... reached ... limits the size they can grow( more or less the size of elephant teal) how do Elephant Teals measure up against, say,...
... Good point. Besides, why would hesperornithids grow _and_ become bottom-grazers _in the presence of_ elasmosaurs? First the cooling climate pushed the...
David Marjanovic
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Oct 12, 2005 12:40 pm
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... Desmostylians were not so completely adapted to an aquatic existence. They still had four serious legs. ... No need to mention that all the time. As a...
David Marjanovic
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Oct 12, 2005 12:47 pm
9152
... cold waters ... 2 HUGE mistakes here, firstly duckwhales fill the beaked whale/Kogia niche, and they are cosmopolitan, if you are talking about smooches,...
... We are. ... They probably shouldn't be... ... Yes. ... Well, maybe that just means they visited those cold waters in summer... elasmosaurs especially have...
David Marjanovic
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Oct 12, 2005 1:35 pm
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... existence. They ... I agree that they had four legs, though the drawings I've seen (reconstructions and skeletons) show something with such ungainly legs &...
Since I can't respond to the DML. I wrote this in 2003 Rahonavis (it could probably, when necessary, perch as well). Its hallux is pretty short.<< But could it...
Tracy Ford
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Oct 13, 2005 7:22 am
9157
Tracy, would it hurt to petition the DML for reinstatement?...
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Tracy Ford
dino.hunter@...
Oct 13, 2005 8:48 am
9159
... Well, that's not enough. When I just curl my fingers, without opposing the thumb, I don't have a good grip on anything that's more than, say, 5 cm in ...
David Marjanovic
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Oct 13, 2005 1:51 pm
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... They had already reinstated him once. Then they kicked him out a second time. The reason, both times, was that Tracy often got angry for no apparent reason...
David Marjanovic
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Oct 13, 2005 2:00 pm
9161
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Tracy Ford
dino.hunter@...
Oct 13, 2005 3:59 pm
9162
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Tracy Ford
dino.hunter@...
Oct 13, 2005 4:03 pm
9163
... Of course not. You said it was able to perch because it could curl its toes -- right? ... Then you were using symplesiomorphies -- shared _retained_...
David Marjanovic
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Oct 13, 2005 4:30 pm
9164
... Once you were sort of pressured to leave voluntarily, right? ... That's not the problem -- you also take it emotionally... ... OK, I shut up already. :-) ...
David Marjanovic
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Oct 13, 2005 4:32 pm
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... Which lead ROBERT0918@... to ask: ] Tracy, would it hurt to petition the DML for reinstatement? Which brings me here... It would not hurt. There's...
Oops. This is probably obvious to anyone brave or macabre enough to have read to the end, but when I wrote: P.S. If Tracy really thought like a scientist, the...
maybe a Hespy-derived thing - on an island or something, that's entered the huia/aye-aye/woodpecker niche (no handbanging, mind)...using part or all of its...
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