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Re: when is a Lazarus Taxon not a Lazarus Taxon?




From: tholtz@geol.umd.edu
To: keenir@hotmail.com
CC: dinosaur@usc.edu
Subject: Re: when is a Lazarus Taxon not a Lazarus Taxon?
Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2006 09:03:58 -0500 (EST)



That thing that makes a critter a Lazarus taxon is our limited knowledge
of its stratigraphic and distributional record, and not properties of the
organism per se. (Although obviously the new life habit is what allowed it
to "escape" from our recovery of the record for an interval).

Hope this helps, 

immensely; thank you.

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