Re: Remoras

["Grant Harding" <granth@cyberus.ca>]

You write:
><< It made me wonder: how plausible is the idea of seeing ancient marine
>reptiles with remoras in tow? >>
>
>  I've checked it out and it seems that the earliest record is Tertiary for
>remoras.

What point in the Tertiary?  And does that necessarily preclude their
existence in the Mesozoic?

Ciao!
-Grant

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