Re: Sauropod nostrils (was RE: joke........)

["T. Mike Keesey" <tkeese1@gl.umbc.edu>]

On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Matthew Bonnan wrote:

> Perhaps sauropod nasal position has to do with neotony (retaining juvenile 
> characters into adulthood).  Embryonic prosauropods like Mussasaurus have 
> nostrils placed higher on the head and closer to the orbit than adult 
> prosauropods which have sniffers in the front.

Or perhaps _Mussaurus_ is a closer to sauropods than other "prosauropods".
(I personally don't buy into "prosauropod" monophyly.)

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