Re: More evidence of dinosaur colors

[Saint Abyssal <saint_abyssal@yahoo.com>]

Successful sleuthing was successful:

Whitear, M. 1956 On the colour of an ichthyosaur. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 9, 
742â744.

The paper was much older than I expected (I was thinking early 90s). :o

Darren Naish had some possibly illuminating comments to make on our very own 
DML: http://dml.cmnh.org/2000Apr/msg00277.html

--- On Mon, 2/8/10, Dan Chure <danchure@easilink.com> wrote:

> From: Dan Chure <danchure@easilink.com>
> Subject: Re: More evidence of dinosaur colors
> To: "Dinosaur Mailing List" <dinosaur@usc.edu>
> Date: Monday, February 8, 2010, 1:41 PM
> If anyone recalls the paper referred
> to, please send me the citation. Presumably this was
> done using other techniques?
> 
> Dan
> 
> 
> Saint Abyssal wrote:
> > --- On Mon, 2/8/10, Dan Chure <danchure@easilink.com>
> wrote:
> > 
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> >> From: Dan Chure <danchure@easilink.com>
> >> Subject: Re: More evidence of dinosaur colors
> >> To: dinosaur@usc.edu
> >> Date: Monday, February 8, 2010, 7:14 AM
> >> Some time ago there was a short paper
> >> on the origin of ichthyosaur skin impressions
> which described them as bacterial mats that
> >> just preserved the outline of the skin.Â
> Close up examination of the
> >> skin showed abundant, close packed, rod-like
> bacteria. In light
> >> of this new paper, I wonder if those might not
> have been misidentified and
> >> careful restudy might reveal something about the
> colors of those ancient
> >> marine reptiles. Might this study technique
> also be applied
> >> to that collection of soft body weirdos known as
> the Burgess Shale fauna?
> >> 
> >> Dan
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> > Don't know the source, but I've heard there was a
> study on this exact subject. Apparently the conclusion was
> that the specimen was "toroise-shell brown" in life.
> > 
> > ~ Abyssal
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