Re: NEW CROCODILE FOUND

[jdharris@lust.isem.smu.edu (Jerry D. Harris)]

At 4:17 AM 8/25/95, Paul Willis wrote:
>Actually it was Clark, J. M., Jacobs, L. L. and Downs, W. R., 1989 Science
>244:1064 - 1066. We croc people prefer to refer to them as "aberent-tooth
>crocs" while mammals are seen as convergent upon "aberent-toothed crocs"
>and can largely be dismissed as unprocessed crocodile poo.

        Correct.  However, Elizabeth did her Master's thesis describing the
animal a couple years ago, a revised version of which is to be published in
the future in the _JVP_.  8-)



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