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Ok, here are a few articles that I’ve come across this week. Unfortunately,
the local libraries do not carry as many publications as they use to. Goldberg, K, & A. j.
V. Garcia, 2000. Palaeobiogeography of the Bauru Group, a dinosaur-bearing
Cretaceous unit, northeastern Parana Basin, Brazil. Cretaceous Research, Volume
21: 241-254. Carvalho, I. De S., 2000. Geological environments of
dinosaur footprints in the intracratonic basins of northeast Brazil during the
Early Cretaceous opening of the south Atlantic. Cretaceous Research, Volume 21:
255-267. (I’d love to see the dinosaur footprints walking around in that
environment! :>) And the Crème de la Crème… Renesto, S., 2000. Bird-like head on a chameleon body: new specimens of
the enigmatic diapsid reptile Megalancosaurus
from the Late Triassic of Northern Italy. Rivista Italiana di Paleontooiga e Stratigrafia, Volume 106, Numero 2:
157-180. 2 new specimens, one with the back of the skull and good skeleton, the
other has a good skeleton. One with the ‘hooked’ tail. Basically, he states
that skull and neck looks avian, but it has nothing to do with the evolution of
birds. The skull and neck does look like Proavis (which may be another argument
for Proavis being a chimera). It most likely wasn’t a glider. If it was it
would have glide like a flying squirrel and not a pterosaur or bird. Nice paper! Tracy |