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Re: Apatornis

To: "Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <th81@umail.umd.edu>
Subject: Re: Apatornis
From: "Grant Harding" <granth@cyberus.ca>
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 13:37:04 -0400
Cc: <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Reply-to: "Grant Harding" <@cyberus.ca>
Sender: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu

>_Apatornis_ is a poorly known ichthyornithiform.  By inference from
>_Ichthyornis_, it was a flier, walker, and probably could do a little
>swimming/diving (but no real particular adapations for the latter two).

So was it likely a piscivore, then?


--
Grant Harding
High school student/closet paleontologist
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"...I suspect he actually has a subspecies of _Stenonychosaurus_, though I
haven't decided for sure...small Triassic carnivore--two meters from pes to
acetabulum. In point of fact, a rather ordinary theropod..." -from
Crichton's _The Lost World_