Maybe John Ruben knows. Once he conducted a CAT-scan on a alligator to compare with putative dinosaurian and avian respiratory tract.
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Roberto Takata
Does anybody out there know of published information, or have first-hand information about, the thickness of the hide along the dorsoventral midflank of the body trunk of an adult alligator?
And is there any information about the relationship between hide thickness and body size (if any) across species in crocodilians or lizards?