Re: Lepidosaur cuteness factor?

[Jura <pristichampsus@yahoo.com>]

As long as we're pulling digimorph images, let's not
forget my favorite ontogenetic comparison:

_Sphenodon punctatus_ adult (skull)

http://www.digimorph.org/specimens/Sphenodon_punctatus/adult/

_Sphenodon punctatus_ juvenile (skull)

http://www.digimorph.org/specimens/Sphenodon_punctatus/juvenile/

There you go, squamata and it's sister group.
Cladistic brackets away!

Jason


--- Christopher Collinson
<thats_mr_annoying_to_you@yahoo.com> wrote:

> David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at> wrote:
> > Your examples of gharials and cranes unfortunately
> slipped back into 
> > archosaurs,
> > which are born cuter than most, as noted earlier.
> 
> <<I haven't seen enough hatchling lepidosaurs to be
> <<able to support that statement.
> 
> Well here are a few Lepidosaur juvenile to adult
> comparisons to firmly put the last nail in the
> coffin
> of that statement. In all three examples the
> ontogenic
> carachters common to all vertebrates are clearly
> visible. 
> 
> Shinisaurus crocodilurus(Adult):
>
http://www.digimorph.org/specimens/Shinisaurus_crocodilurus/adult/
> 
> Shinisaurus crocodilurus(Juvenile):
>
http://www.digimorph.org/specimens/Shinisaurus_crocodilurus/juvenile/
> 
> Phrynosoma taurus (Adult):
>
http://www.digimorph.org/specimens/Phrynosoma_taurus/head/
> 
> Phrynosoma taurus (Juvenile):
>
http://www.digimorph.org/specimens/Phrynosoma_taurus/embryo/
> 
> Heloderma suspectum (Adult):
>
http://www.digimorph.org/specimens/Heloderma_suspectum/adult/
> 
> Heloderma suspectum (Juvenile):
>
http://www.digimorph.org/specimens/Heloderma_suspectum/juvenile/head/
> 
> Cheers,
> Christopher
> 
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than we do of many fossil groups." - Alfred S. Romer

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