BIRDY _ARCHAEOPTERYX_

["Jerry D. Harris" <102354.2222@compuserve.com>]

Message text written by INTERNET:m_troutman@hotmail.com
>Padian also described some Morrison 
maniraptorans or maniraptoriforms. <

        And, lest we forget, the hand Osborn attributed to _Ornitholestes_
is now demonstrably referable to _Coelurus_ which, thanks to a couple of
new specimens (postered at SVP, to be described soon) clearly show
Kimmeridgian maniraptoriforms (older than the Tithonian _Archaeopteryx_).



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                     Jerry D. Harris
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