Re: [Re: Feathered/scaly theropods: trying to make the point.]

["Demetrios M. Vital" <vita0015@umn.edu>]

Jurassosaurus replied:
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> > Default until Sinosauropteryx and its descendants.  No one is arguing
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> dinosaurs "originally" had scales.
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> ++++++++++++++++++++
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> I don't know; it sure sounded that way to me.

Then what are we discussing?  Dinosaurs having scales or dinosaurs having
feathers?

They both seem rather obvious to me...

> None really; it's the same as down, primaries and secondaries all being
> feathers.
> Scutes, like reticulae, are just different types of scales.

Thanks for the clarification.

-Demetrios