Re: Spinosuchus caseanus

["Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>]

Tim Williams (twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com) wrote:

<Has anybody seen this study, and/or know what this "new interpretation"
is?

  Richards, H. Robins III, M.S. Osteology and relationships of
_Spinosuchus caseanus_ Huene, 1932 from Texas (Dockum Group, Upper
Triassic): a new interpretation. December 17, 1999. Richard J. Zakrzewski,
Thesis Advisor. Fort Hays University, Department of Geosciences.>

  I received a copy of thise and talked to Robins for a little on the
topic. This taxon is considered to be a prolacertiform that compares well
to *Tanystropheus* and *Protorosaurus* in various features. It lacks
virtually every vertebral dinosaurian apomorphy.

  Cheers,

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Jaime A. Headden

  Little steps are often the hardest to take.  We are too used to making leaps 
in the face of adversity, that a simple skip is so hard to do.  We should all 
learn to walk soft, walk small, see the world around us rather than zoom by it.

"Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth." --- P.B. Medawar (1969)


        
                
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