Re: Elvis, Sue, and a guy who's Bi

["Matthew Troutman" <m_troutman@hotmail.com>]

><< Possible discovery of the earliest bipedal reptile >>

>This might even be an archosaur. In the Permian, no less. Not many >of 
those.

Check your SVP abstracts from last year. Sumida and Berman have some ifo 
on this creature in there. Rather than quote it verbatum, let me touch 
on the highlights:

Lower Permian basal reptile, with some features of the diadectomorphs 
and a few other mosaic features of basal amniotes. Reptilian-type tarsal 
bones and araeoscelidian reptile-like vertebral column. Disproportionate 
limb length is indicative of bipedal or climbing habits. 

MattTroutman 

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