Re: more on aquatic elephants

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On 13 Nov 1995 jamesb@hgu.mrc.ac.uk wrote:

> Not horns dude, tusks. And tusks are features that only show up in
> elephants, aquatics and swamp-dwellers......

So which tusks are you talking about? The enlarged second upper incisors
in proboscideans? The enlarged canines in walruses? The enlarged canines
in dik`diks (which are not swamp dwellers). Get off this elephant as
aquatic animals jag. The last plausible aquatic elephant was more than
30 mya. They have been completely terrestial since then. Besides which,
the earliest proboscideans do not have tusks!!!

David J. Froehlich Phone: 512-471-6088
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The University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712

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