Re: Winged migration

["James R. Cunningham" <jrccea@bellsouth.net>]

That confirms Greg's statement that the pterosaurs were still around. 
And still able to achieve larger size than birds too.
JimC

John Bois wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 GSP1954@aol.com wrote:
> 
> > What I am wondering is where they got the figure of 80 million years
> > that birds have ruled the skies. Birds were present almost twice as long, 
> > and
> > abundant by the Early Cretaceous, but pterosaurs were still around 65 
> > million
> > years ago.
> 
> Pterosaurs were reduced to a very few niches by 65mya.  Diversity in all
> but the largest size ranges was being diminished well before that
> time.  Unwin says this, I believe.