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Re: Nocturnal crocs?

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Subject: Re: Nocturnal crocs?
From: "David Marjanovic" <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 12:04:44 +0200
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----- Original Message -----
From: "John Bois" <jbois@umd5.umd.edu>
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Subject: Re: Nocturnal crocs?


> [...]
> Increased wetland habitat in Eocene.  Andors (ref. if needed) cites
> studies showing more humid/wetland/swamp/whatever habitat in both Eu and
> NA.  When these continents switched to drier climates, Gastornithids
> (Diatryma back in 1988) fossils disappear.
> Extant ratites exploit vast _grasslands_.  Wetlands do not exsit in past
> vastness.  Look, this is an hypothesis.  I don't know if it is true.

What little I know is that Messel and Geiseltal were forests (rainforests
AFAIK) next to a lake, but not wetlands. (Only animals that somehow reached
the lake bottom are preserved.) Both *Gastornis* and a phorusracid are known
from there.

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- Re: Nocturnal crocs?
  - From: John Bois <jbois@umd5.umd.edu>

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