Re: Speculative dino species

["David Marjanovic" <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Stacey Burgess
To: dinosaur@usc.edu
Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2001 3:44 AM
Subject: Re: Speculative dino species

> Allow the speculation to begin!
>
> The following is a literally a 30 second sketch so please be kind,I plan
on doing a far better drawing next week sometime.
>
> "A dromeosaurid that has evolved to fill the niche that today is occupied
by Ibis and other wading birds"
>
> heres the picture
>
> http://paleozone.homestead.com/files/ibisdromeo.JPG

This could only happen if the "transitional shorebirds" that there were
before the K-T as well as, say, oviraptoro- and ornithomimosaurs died out,
IMHO.

BTW, all records of "Cretaceous primates" are limited to a single tooth of
*Purgatorius*, a plesiadapiform (closer to Dermoptera = "flying lemurs" than
primates) that was quite common in the Paleocene of North America. The
mentioned tooth was found in a sieve that had been used before to screenwash
Paleocene sediments, and has remained singular so far.