Re: Preservational bias revisited

[Dinogeorge@aol.com]

In a message dated 97-06-25 10:09:26 EDT, MissRaptor@mindless.com (Swift
Claw) writes:

<< Would this also have prevented bones from fossilizing well?  If so,
 perhaps there are several lines of dinosaurs that will never be known
 due to the fact that their bones never fossilized.
   Imagine how much we cannot know about dinosaurs... >>

I estimate that between 75-90% of all the dinosaur species that ever existed
will >never< be discovered, because their populations lived and died in
places where fossilization was impossible. This preservational bias affects
the small forms worse than the large forms.