Re: *Uatchitodon*?

[jabartle <jabartle@unity.ncsu.edu>]

Nick, I am sorry not to have provided the reference:


HD Sues, 1991.  Venom-conducting teeth in a Triassic reptile.  Nature 351:
141-143.


Also reported with other beasties from the Richmond Basin in a chapter of the
book *In the Shadow of the Dinosaurs* [Cambridge, 1994; Fraser and Sues,
eds].  Known so far from tooth only, I think.

Jeff

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Nicholas Gardner wrote:

> And the tooth of Uatchitodon from the upper Triassic Richmond basin,
> >reported by Sues and company, represents the earliest
> >rept/archosauriform bearing such grooved structure.
> >
>
> Could someone provide more info on this critter?  I've never heard of it
> before.  And aren't some birds poisonous in some fashion?  I've asked this
> at sci.bio.paleontology and received no response.
>
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