tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6574000839639433662.post1818431672126284114..comments2024-02-28T16:58:57.135-06:00Comments on Equatorial Minnesota: Won't somebody please think of the champsosaurs?Justin Tweethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01792470288586894872noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6574000839639433662.post-4701594352731184092015-06-02T21:52:09.214-05:002015-06-02T21:52:09.214-05:00I must confess that I'm fairly agnostic about ...I must confess that I'm fairly agnostic about where choristoderes fit in, coming at them as I do more than halfway through their history and via one of the more specialized examples. The main issue, of course, is that there are spotty fossil records, and then there is the choristodere record: about two dozen species over 200 million years, concentrated in the Early Cretaceous and Campanian–Paleocene, and with several distinct lineages.Justin Tweethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01792470288586894872noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6574000839639433662.post-988745105589796232015-06-02T05:02:30.974-05:002015-06-02T05:02:30.974-05:00Good article. You may not be aware but at reptilee...Good article. You may not be aware but at reptileevolution.com/reptile-tree.htm choristoderes nest with Doswellia as sisters to parasuchia and proterochampsidae, all descending from BPI 2871, a small proterosuchid without an antorbital fenestra and Elaphrosuchus, a larger proterosuchid with an antorbital fenestra.D.P.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13009843520057633239noreply@blogger.com