Pterosaur pneumaticity [joke, was Re: CONVERGENCE HAPPENS]

["Jonathan R. Wagner" <znc14@TTACS.TTU.EDU>]

Matthew Troutman wrote:
>I was did say that the elongate fourth digit is 
>pneumatized, though.  Regardless of whether pterosaurs had this system 
>or not, all basal birds, including it seems, most enantiornithines lack 
>this type of pneumatization which renders your argument null.
        The absence of this system in basal birds is unsurprising, as basal
birds not only lacked a corresponding elongation of manual digit IV, but
they in fact lacked the homologous digit in its entirity. :)

        Wagner

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