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David Marjanovic wrote-
Sounds interesting -- this moves Archie away from
birds, IMHO.
BTW, even though Poland has brought forth a large
number of internationally famous female dinosaur paleontologists (just off the
top of my head: Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska, Teresa Marya´nska, Halszka Osmólska),
Andrzej El´zanowski is male -- Andrzej is the Polish form of Andrew (remove the
diacritic z and you get it in Russian), and his last name ends in -ski rather
than -ska. (Accents belong on the n and z, not before)
Arghh. Apologies to Andrzej. I'll get
these right eventually... :-)
In any case, why would Archaeopteryx's unique
kinesis move it away from birds? After all, all non-ornithothoracine
theropods are either akinetic or have unique forms of kinesis. As
confuciusornithids are akinetic, I wouldn't expect the pygostylian sister group
to have an ornithothoracine-like prokinetic skull.
Mickey Mortimer
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