Re: Re: CARNIVORE FROM HERBIVORE AGAIN!

[Thomas_R_HOLTZ@umail.umd.edu (th81)]

>In a message dated 95-10-26 11:02:42 EDT, martz@holly.ColoState.EDU (Jeffrey
>Martz) writes:
>
>>     No one has even proven that Archaeopteryx was munching on insects.  
>>There were a lot more filling things to catch back then, like lizards, 
>>mammals, ambhibians, maybee even fish.
>>
>>
>
>Didn't someone (Ostrom?) once suggest archaeopterygid flight feathers as
>insect traps?
>

JHO did suggest this, but only as an alternative.  Despite popular books to
the contrary, he was never a strong advocate of this diea.

Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
Vertebrate Paleontologist
Dept. of Geology
University of Maryland
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