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Re: Protoavis

To: Multiple recipients of list <dinosaur@lepomis.psych.upenn.edu>
Subject: Re: Protoavis
From: Tom Holtz <tholtz@geochange.er.usgs.gov>
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 1994 08:44:50 -0500
Reply-to: tholtz@geochange.er.usgs.gov
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>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.

So far there has only been one major technical paper on Protoavis, and that
was only on the skull.  A paper on the postcranial skeleton is supposed to
be out in the near future.

There are several opinions on the subject of Protoavis.  Some conisder it
an ancestral bird, others a primitive theropod not closely related to
birds, and a number of workers think that it is a chimera (a "specimen"
composed of bones from more than one sort of animal).

                                
Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.                                   
tholtz@geochange.er.usgs.gov
Vertebrate Paleontologist in Exile                  Phone:      703-648-5280
U.S. Geological Survey                                FAX:      703-648-5420
Branch of Paleontology & Stratigraphy
MS 970 National Center
Reston, VA  22092
U.S.A.