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[Copperhead <agkistrodon@mindspring.com>]

At 10:56 AM 7/14/1999 -0700, Betty wrote:

>While reading Colbert's book on Coleophysis, _The Little Dinosaurs of
>Ghost Ranch_ I came up with a couple of questions (of course).
>

1) Answered by Dinogeorge

>2) in discribing the function of sclerotic ossicles, Colbert says
>several paleontologists have thought they have "a function in the
>mechanism of accomodation".  What's that?

Accommodation is the movement or shape-shifting of the lens or diotropic
apparatus to maintain or change focus of the image.  It is possible that
the sclerotic ossicles acted in some way to manipiulate the lens or the
eyeball so that light was focused on the retina and it could be retained in
focus.

Ag