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Just got finished reading all the latest posts
on this Longisquama issue. I`ve visited the sites with excellent closeups of the
supposed feathers, and must admit they are looking more like feathers than
fern fronds. If Longi is related to Cosesaurus, (as indicated on Dave Peters
site), I would feel even better about it being a possible early avian candidate.
However, I just can`t see how what seem like well developed flight
feathers attached to the back could somehow migrate to the arms in later avian
forms. Unless,....is it possible that they actually were attached to arms, that
were folded back when the critter died? All I have seen of the whole specimen
are drawings. Yet the feather picts shown recently are quite clear. Could anyone
point out a good photo of the whole fossil? Or, could someone with access to
such a photo, or the specimen itself (Dr Holtz?) tell me there is >NO<
possibility they were attached to arms?
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