RE: Rahonavis....Both!

["Norton, Patrick" <Patrick.Norton@state.me.us>]

<I personally think that flying avian forms were around since the
mid-late Triassic, based on my acceptance of Chatterjee`s Protoavis as   
being
what he claims it is >

Actually, if you accept Chatterjee's claims about Protoavis, you'd have   
to believe that flying avian forms were around much earlier than   
that---since he claims that Protoavis is more a derived "bird" than   
Archaeopteryx, even though it's considerably older.