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From: RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Ancient tetrapod predator
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2024 14:51:02 -0500
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On 7/4/2024 9:18 AM, John Harshman wrote:
> On 7/3/24 6:29 PM, RonO wrote:
>> On 7/3/2024 5:56 PM, John Harshman wrote:
>>> On 7/3/24 3:04 PM, RonO wrote:
>>>> https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/fossils-show-huge-salamanderlike-predator-sharp-fangs-existed-111645297
>>>>
>>>> The giant salamander with fangs may have lived 280 million years 
>>>> ago, and they claim that Namibia was in a much colder region of the 
>>>> world at that time (they claim glacial region).
>>>>
>>>> Click on the link in the fourth paragraph and you can get a copy of 
>>>> the Nature article to read, otherwise the article is pay walled.
>>>>
>>>> Ron Okimoto
>>>>
>>> What do you mean by "they claim"? Are you trying to cast doubt on the 
>>> Permian glaciation? There's plenty of evidence for it.
>>>
>>
>> Why would you think that I was casting doubt on their claims.
> 
> That's more or less what "they claim" connotes. Perhaps you misspoke?

Perhaps you misunderstood.  They did make those claims in the paper.

> 
>> The paper indicates that if the region of Pangea that is now Namibia 
>> was as cold as they think, then amphibians had adapted to colder 
>> climates after diversification during the Caboniferous.
> 
> "As cold as they think" is hardly a matter of "if". That part of 
> Gondwana was near the south pole at the time, and there's all sorts of 
> evidence of a protracted series of ice ages. There were of course 
> interglacials, but there would still have been very long, cold winters. 
> Think Alaska.
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Paleozoic_icehouse
> 

You seem to want to misunderstand what I wrote.

Ron Okimoto