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[Mike Taylor <mike@tecc.co.uk>]

> Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 10:01:49 -0600
> From: "Jonathan R. Wagner" <jonathan.r.wagner@mail.utexas.edu>
> 
> "Considering that the Tsagayan lay between NA and Mongolia, which were
> biogeographically linked in the Maastrichtian, and had more derived and
> different faunas by then (fewer lambeosaurs) the Tsagayan hadrosaurs seem
> too primitive and diverse for such a late age.  Godefroit said NE Asia was
> completely isolated: "how, no one knows."  Is that credible?"
>         Well, I think this depends partly on the age interpretation... As
> for isolation mechanisms... well, there are profound differences in northern
> and southern faunas of North America at about the same time, even though
> exchange certainly *was* possible. Heck, there are differences between
> Montana and Southern Alberta! So, I suppose it is credible, IMHO.

Jonathan and others,

Just to say that I would really appreciate it if you'd quote the old
messages that you're replying to using the standard convention of
preceding each line with a ">" sign.  Otherwise it's terribly
difficult to make out what you're saying.

I appreciate that it's a burden, but suppose it takes you twenty
second to do it.  If your message is read by 500 people and it saves
them ten seconds each (not an unreasonable estimate), then you've
saved 4980 seconds in total.

Thanks,

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