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Re: plesiosaur lips
In a message dated 11/3/2006 4:11:48 AM Eastern Standard Time,
christian@darkin.demon.co.uk writes:
<< Can anyone give me pointers about skin texture - and most specifically
whether there's any evidence for or against lips? The fashion right now
seems to be to depict plesiosaurs and pliosaurs without lips (I guess to
make them look fierce) - but that seems at odds with the streamlining of
the rest of the body.
What does anyone think? >>
Some of the plesiosaurs are so snaggle-toothed it's difficult to imagine
them with extensive "lips". See:
_http://www.oceansofkansas.com/KS-Plesiosaurs/un50132.jpg_
(http://www.oceansofkansas.com/KS-Plesiosaurs/un50132.jpg)
You might make a case for polycotylids, possibly. Perhaps Dr. Carpenter has
some thoughts on this. Mosasaurs probably had them and I suspect we've been
guilty in showing too much in the way of teeth in that group. DV