Re: questions about the Odontochelys study

[Roberto Takata <rmtakata@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 1:24 AM, T. Michael Keesey <keesey@gmail.com> wrote:
> What if the ventral armor was not for protection against predation,
> but against the environment (vegetation, rocks, etc.)? (Probably
> overkill, but I thought I'd toss the idea out there.)

I've read somewhere that, in some marine reptiles, pachyostosis could
be an adaptation to increase the organism density... Couldn't it be
the case for the turtle plastron evolutionary development?

[]s,

Roberto Takata