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Re: Where, oh where do those turtles come from?

To: dinosaur@usc.edu, th81@umail.umd.edu ("Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.")
Subject: Re: Where, oh where do those turtles come from?
From: tuckr@digital.net
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 97 22:50:18 GMT
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> Lee concludes that turtles are the derived descendants of the pareiasaurs

    Am I the only one here who rather likes this thought?

> DeBraga & Rieppel, on the other hand, support the idea that turtles are
> derived diapsids, are lepidosauromorphs, and are the sister taxon to
> Sauropterygia.

    Gag.

> DeBraga & Lee
                    ^^^^
    Rieppel?

>  Neither paper is short enough to be easily xeroxed...

    But, isn't that what grad students are for?

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