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Re:
In a message dated 9/19/99 8:25:47 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
eamalitz@hotmail.com writes:
> If it [Jibeinia] has teeth is not likely that it is more
> primitive [than Confuciusornis] and the resemblance may merely be the
> deceptiveness of plesiomorphy.
Plesiomorphic they may be, but the teeth have nothing to do with it.
Confuciusornis pretty clearly lost its teeth convergently with later birds.
Nick P.
Olympia, WA