Re: Cretaceous taeniodont

[Mickey Rowe <rowe@psych.ucsb.edu>]

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Date: Sat,  3 Apr 2004 23:07:21 +1200
From: ctay052@.SYNTAX-ERROR
To: dinosaur@usc.edu
Subject: Re: Cretaceous taeniodont

The only specimen is most of the front half of a skull (upper and lower jaws 
as far back as behind eye orbit, braincase missing). It's a basal taeniodont, 
so probably not as front-heavy as later forms (which, I seem to recall, were 
something like staple-pullers on legs).
    The paper estimates it 'probably was similar in size to the marsupial 
_Didelphodon vorax_... and to... _Cimolestes magnus_' and then 'dimensions of 
the dentaries of _S. clemensi_ fall within the range of size variation 
exhibited by dentaries of _C. magnus_'

    Cheers,

        Christopher Taylor

Quoting John Bois <jbois@umd5.umd.edu>:

> Can you still us how big this fellow was?
> 
> On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Christopher Taylor wrote:
> 
> > I wanted to get some reactions to this (not dinosaur, sorry, but
> > Cretaceous):
> >
> > Fox, R. C., & B. G. Naylor. 2003. A Late Cretaceous taeniodont (Eutheria,
> > Mammalia) from Alberta, Canada. Neues Jahrbuch fuer Geologie und
> > Palaeontologie - Abhandlungen 229 (3): 393-420.
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