RE: New Refs: JVP 19 (3)

["Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <tholtz@geol.umd.edu>]

> From: Gareth Dyke [mailto:Gareth.Dyke@bristol.ac.uk]
>
> and dont forget the excellent:
>
> Caprimulgiform birds from Messel, by Gerald Mayr

Apologies to Gerald Mayr (pp. 521-532): discusses the oldest known frogmouth
(or "muppet-bird", as my wife & I call them...  If you've ever seen a living
podagrid, you'll know what we mean) and a possible oilbird from the Eocene
Messel lagerstat.

According to the text on p. 93A of the abstracts volume, "the technical
content of the SVP session is not to be reported in any medium (print,
electronic, or Internet) without prior permission of the authors", so I
won't give too many details about the abstracts.

However, the real groaner of a title so far is Kevin Seymour's Romer Prize
talk "Morphological variation, phylogeny and possible ancestry of the South
American small cats (SASC): Can the missing _Lynx_ be identified?".  Ugh...

Also, you'll have to ask Josh Smith about the Baculum Draconis Quarry in
Wyoming.

                Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
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