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RE: Cloudy With A Chance Of New Papers



David, I am thinking he'd assume *Tianyulong* does nothing to change his 
opinion: The long quill-like structures are just that -- long and quill-like -- 
while everything else is degraded collagen, which is what Lingham-Soliar's last 
two papers on the subject went through a lot of hoops to show. Moreover, even 
if the pterosaurian "pycnofibres" are homologous, one could not produce an 
argument that all dinosaurs should have similar hair-like fibres of a 
homologous origin assumed in each ancestor, and therefore that they'd be 
present in any taxon such as all of those assumed (like *Sinosauropteryx* to 
have degraded collagen frills or such.

Cheers,

Jaime A. Headden

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> Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 01:04:04 +0200
> From: david.marjanovic@gmx.at
> To: dinosaur@usc.edu
> Subject: Re: Cloudy With A Chance Of New Papers
>
>> Lingham-Soliar, T. 2009. Dinosaur protofeathers: pushing back the
>> origin of feathers into the Middle Triassic? Journal of Ornithology.
>> doi: 10.1007/s10336-009-0446-7.
>>
>> ABSTRACT: [...] The notion that primordial feathers occurred in a
>> clade more inclusive than the Coelurosauria and that it is supported
>> by the presence of integumental structures in Psittacosaurus is
>> analyzed and rejected.
>
> Ten Euro-cents sez the manuscript was accepted the day before
> *Tianyulong* was published. Any takers?

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