Re: Protoavis

[Stan Friesen <swf@ElSegundoCA.NCR.COM>]

>From: <XRAYDELTA1@aol.com>
 > 
 > Greetings:
 > 
 > Does anyone know what happened to Chatterjee's "Protoavis"?  I
 > recall it did stir up a bit of a row a couple of years ago.
 > 
Very little.  Chatterjee and Martin still think it is a bird.
Everybody else thinks it is either a chimera or at least not
at all avian (though perhaps a sphenosuchian)

Most paleontologists really aren't giving it much attention,
on the grounds that it is too badly mangled to be adequately
studied.  (The specimens were badly crushed shortly after
death).

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