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Re: ONE TOUGH DINOSAUR DISCOVERED
At 08:15 AM 11/13/98 -0800, Larry Dunn wrote:
>http://www.abcnews.com:80/sections/science/DailyNews/dinosaur981112.html
>
>Hidden in this story was the real gem: flying dinosaurs! (And I
>assume they don't mean birds.) Why has no one crowed about these
>flying dinosaurs yet? They must have been terrible competition for
>the pterosaurs....
Yeah, indeed...
Before people start getting their hopes up, here is the appropriate comment
from Sereno et al. 1998:
"Nondinosaurian vertebrates not previously recorded include a long-snouted
basal crocodyloid and *an azhdarchid pterosaur*." (asterisks added by me).
Well, overall the article wasn't too bad. And they didn't call me "Lou" by
accident (or "Tim").
Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
Vertebrate Paleontologist Webpage: http://www.geol.umd.edu
Dept. of Geology Email:tholtz@geol.umd.edu
University of Maryland Phone:301-405-4084
College Park, MD 20742 Fax: 301-314-9661