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:: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 ::
First ichthyosaurs, and now sauropterygians: fossils of Keichousaurus seem to indicate that it, and likely by extension pliosaurs and plesiosaurs, gave birth to live young rather than hauling out on the beach to lay eggs. Reading this story, I was pleased with its accuracy until the second to last paragraph, which says, "Sauropterygians, which include large animals such as plesiosaurs and mososaurs, lived from 250 to 65 million years ago." First of all, I've never heard of a "mososaur," but if they mean mosasaur, they're still wrong. Mosasaurs were lepidosaurians from the order Squamata, more closely related to monitor lizards like the Komodo dragon than to other marine reptiles. Can't they get just one story about reptiles right?
:: Tim 2:45 PM [+] :: 11 comment(s)
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11 Comments:
You kill me! Squamata? Always something zoological to learn.
Pangolins?
By 
Sam, at
3:49 PM, November 18, 2004
Yes, thanks, I'll take three. Pangolins are delicious.
I kill me, too! But seriously, I'm not sure what you're asking. Do you seek information on pangolins?
By Tim, at
11:09 PM, November 18, 2004
Your postings on animals always make me want to delve into the minutiae of the specific topic at hand, and so I read a bit on the order Squamata and was surprised to see pangolins included. Sorry, probably not new or interesting information to you, but for me it was. And I'm sure they're lovely on the grill.
By Sam, at
5:42 AM, November 19, 2004
"Squamata" comes from a Latin word which means "scaly," so in a purely adjectival sense, pangolins would be included. And it's true that the order to which pangolins belong has sometimes been called Squamata. It's bad form in zoology to have the same name for two different taxa, because it results in the sort of confusion we have here. So pangolins are usually placed in an order called Pholidota (of whose etymology I'm ignorant). Squamata is an order of reptiles (lizards, snakes, amphisbaenians); Pholidota is an order of mammals (pangolins alone). Pholidota is also a genus of orchids, but duplicating a name in botany and zoology is a-okay.
A tip on cladistics: the animals included in a taxon or clade must also be included in the same parent taxa. Branches on an evolutionary tree stay separated once they diverge; they cannot cross back over. Here's an illustration:
click hereTetrapoda: "four-footed," all chordates (read: vertebrates) that aren't fishes
Lepidosauria: lizards, snakes, tuataras (Rhynchocephalia), and a whole bunch of extinct forms
Archosauria: crocodiles, dinosaurs, and birds
Mammalia: Milk-producing, usually hairy, endothermic tetrapods--mammals
You can see that pangolins must therefore be quite distinct from the lizards and snakes. Hope this helped!
By Tim, at
1:28 PM, November 19, 2004
Yes, I see now. Quite different. My mistake; I should have delved still deeper. Fascinating as always. Great Knower of living things, I salute you!
By Sam, at
11:44 PM, November 19, 2004
You are the Reptile King!!! All Hail.
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