Re: Protoavis

[John Schneiderman <dino@revelation.unomaha.edu>]

On Tue, 22 Nov 1994 XRAYDELTA1@aol.com wrote:

> 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.
> 
Chatterjee's (first bird --> "Protavis") is considered dubious at best. 
Others that have seen the material have shown a mixing of different kinds 
of animals (most non-dinosaurian) and most reconstructed material does 
not show the avian features he claimed.

---John Schneiderman