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Filter feeding Henodus
Topic Started: Nov 5 2010, 03:57 PM (792 Views)
Carlos
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http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2010/11/henodus_the_placodont.php

So, there can either be whale analogue descendents of Henodus, or turtles that converged on Henodus and became more successfull
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Jeez ! The past just keeps getting weirder and weirder !!!



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Makes you wonder....what were the Mesozoic whale equivalents?
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That just makes me wonder: Aside from Leedsicthys (which seems to have been more of a whale-shark analogue anyway), what WERE the baleen whale analogues in the Mesozoic? Surely creatures that big wouldn't escape the fossil record . . .
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Let me see:

- Hupehsuchids (Triassic only; comtemporaneous of Henodus, but lived far away from the placodont's german lake in the far away land of China)

- Pachycormids (aka Leedsichthys and pals)

- Some random antartic plesiosaur that was a filter feeder

- Stomatosuchid crocodiles (late Cretaceous only)

- Ancestors of the megamouth shark
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I wish we could discover truly giant filter feeding reptiles or fish that lived in the mesozoic-like proper baleen whale size.
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On a related note, some plesiosaurs/pliosaurs/ichthyosaurs/sea crocs might have been doing what modern grey whales do:

http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2009/12/giant_jurassic_sea_gutters.php
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