Re: ... vs energy deficient gigantothermy (boo hiss)

["Tim Williams" <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com>]

David Marjanovic wrote:

> Time alone is not enough, of course. The biggest known mammal of all first
> 165 or so million years of mammal history was the 1 m long platypus
> *Steropodon galmani*.


_Didelphodon vorax_ Marsh 1889, a bader-sized metatherian from the Hell 
Creek Formation of Montana, was at least as large as _Steropodon galmani_ 
(and similar-sized monotremes of SE Australia).  _Didelphodon_ made a cameo 
in the BBC's _Walking With Dinosaurs_, in one of the _T. rex_ scenes.


Tim

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