Re: Jurassic Croc Found With Fish Like Tail

[David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

> These notable features of the Jurassic crocodile (needle teeth,  forked 
> fish-tail, scales or scutes)

Scales are not preserved -- in fact, as carbonized soft-tissue remains from 
Germany show, the metriorhynchids had lost them (like the ichthyosaurs). The 
tail is like an ichthyosaur's, too -- that is, the vertebral column is 
kinked downwards. In the absence of soft-tissue remains, few people will 
guess that the part behind the kink supported the lower lobe of a forked 
tail fin.

The head is hard to get wrong, however! You may well be right just because 
of this alone.