Re: Theropod soft tissue

[Dinogeorge@aol.com]

In a message dated 96-01-11 18:43:30 EST, pharrinj@PLU.edu writes:

>> Nobody seems to have copped to the following article, in the latest issue
>of
>> _Nature_:
>> 
>> Kellner, A. W. A., 1996. "Fossilized theropod soft tissue," _Nature
>> 379_(6560): 32 [January 4, 1996].
>> 
>> There are SEM photos of a smallish ?maniraptoran specimen found in a
>> calcareous concretion from the Santana Formation (which produces all those
>> nice pterosaurs). Sorry, no feathers, scales, or ossicles--and they would
>> have been preserved had they been present. The material includes a pelvis,
>> hind limbs, and some caudal vertebrae in addition to the soft tissue.
Blood
>> vessels, muscle fibers, other good stuff.
>> 
>
>No feathers, no scales, no ossicles...  Hmmm...  Skinless theropods?
>
>

Skin, yes. Just no evidence of those other structures...