Tanystropheus?

["Larry Febo" <larryf@capital.net>]

Yesterday, Dwight Stewart wrote:


>Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 21:17:37 -0800
>From: "Stewart, Dwight" <Dwight.Stewart@VLSI.com>
>To: "'archosaur@usa.net'" <archosaur@usa.net>,
>        "Stewart, Dwight"
>Cc: dinosaur@usc.edu
>Subject: RE: [RE: [Re: Sauropod Trunks]]
>Message-ID: <E3EA87D0CF91D1118E760060089825DF01BC7426@sat->ntexch1>

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>> Then of course their is the ever so strange Tanystropheus and
>> Keichousaurs.
>> Have to wonder how they positioned those necks and how they kept the
blood
>> flow going.
>>
>> All these questions.
>>
>> Archosaur J
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>You've picked two fascinating creatures there! :-)  Has it ever been
>decided if Tanystropheus is a kind of primitive Euryapsid or not?  It DOES
>have a LONGGG neck!  I know next to nothing about
>the Keichousaurus, except that it was found in Triassic starita in
>China.  I assume it had a long neck too?

>Dwight

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Tanystropheus,....(got me wondering about this thing again). I don`t suppose
anyone considers it as a possible precursor to prosauropods?