Re: Alternative origins of birds (humor) (was RE: birds DID NOT evolve from therapods)

[Les Eastman <les@birdtreks.com>]

Could people please take better care to make sure that they properly
indicated material that they are quoting. In the message below, Tracy
Ford includes a paragraph written earlier today by Tom Holtz with no
indication that it is from an earlier message and no attribution to the
author. The usual convention is to precede quoted material with "> " as
shown below.

I am not picking on Tracy, just using his message as an example.
Frequently on this list I see messages answering previous messages where
there is no clear indication on what is being quoted and what is
original material.

Thank you. Now back to your regularly scheduled debates.

Les

"Tracy L. Ford" wrote:
> 
> The other comic symposium I came up with this year is "You Can't Handle The
> Truth: Alternative Ecologies of Famous Fossil Forms".  The two talks
> suggested so far is the reality that hadrosaurids were voracious predators,
> from which the herbivorous tyrannosaurs had to run in terror; and the fact
> that trilobites were NOT really marine bottom feeders but were in fact
> flying terrestrial ravenous carnivores.  In fact, it turns out that
> vertebrates had colonized the land very early in the Cambrian, but the
> piranha-like feeding habits of the trilobites prevented from any of their
> skeletons from making it into the fossil record.  Only after the decline of
> trilobite diversity in the Frasnian-Fammenian extinctions (Late Devonian)
> was the depredations of these forms reduced enough that we start to pick up
> a better terrestrial vertebrate fossil record...
> 
> At the next GSA meeting they have a session on comedy and geology. I
> couldn't believe I was seeing it in the abstract volume. So, sure, its due
> able.
> 
> Tracy L. Ford
> P. O. Box 1171
> Poway Ca  92074



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