Re: solnhofen

[Dinogeorge@aol.com]

In a message dated 4/26/01 11:17:40 AM EST, rob_redwing@hotmail.com writes:

<< Indeed, most of _Protoavis_ seems to be made up of several animals. The 
 skull is part of a megalancosaurid, the hindlimbs are non-avian theropod, 
 the "hand" is some archosaur with a crocodile-normal ankle, and wait for the 
 paper on the pectoral girdle. However, it is generally accepeted (from what 
 I know), that the verts are something new (and are what I refer to as 
 _Protoavis_). However, due to the chimerical nature of the rest of the 
 specimen, this is usualy looked over. >>

It is absolutely amazing how all these animals came to be jumbled together in 
the same small concretion, how no elements of any of these animals was 
duplicated in any of the other animals present in the concretion, and how 
none of these animals has yet been found anywhere else in the Dockum.