Re: Walking Kangarro (was The Cretaceous Middle-East

[NJPharris@aol.com]

In a message dated 9/19/00 7:11:41 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
dbensen@gotnet.net writes:

> In the
>  book, there's a little mammal that looks like a kangaroo (bipedal), but
>  walks like a dinosaur and doesn't jump.  In the author's note at the
>  end, Mr. Bear said that he had baced the little animal on a real
>  fossil.  Does anyone know to what fossil he was referring?

I would guess this is _Leptictidium_.

Nick P.