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Re: CROCODILE ?MYTHS?



In a message dated 96-01-24 19:00:40 EST, longrich@phoenix.Princeton.EDU
(Nicholas R. Longrich) writes:

>For one, you've got animals 
>close enough to each other to be put into the same genus (at least by 
>some authors) or else that bear strong resemblences to each other, on
>both sides of the Bering from a few million years prior 
>to the K-T extinctions- Saurolophus, T rex and bataar, Velociraptor, 
>Edmontosaurus and Shantungosaurus, etc. 

These are familial-subfamilial resemblances only. The two species of
_Saurolophus_ found on opposite sides of the Bering walkway both had a solid
cranial crest; otherwise they're rather different, and belong in different
genera.