ANTON STRIKES BACK

[darren.naish@port.ac.uk]

The new issue (no. 53) of newsletter of The 
Palaeontological Association has just arrived. It includes 
quite a bit of interest.

Some of you may recall my reporting Ian Jenkins' critique 
of Mauricio Anton's artwork. See...

http://www.cmnh.org/dinoarch/2003Apr/msg00471.html

Jenkins argued that Anton made some fundamental 
anatomical errors and didn't make certain taxa bulky or 
bizarre enough. Well, Anton has clearly taken these 
comments extremely seriously as he's published a lengthy 
response. I haven't read it yet but it looks good...

Anton, M. 2003. Reconstructing fossil mammals: strengths 
and limitations of a methodology. _Palaeontological 
Association Newsletter_ 53, 55-65 (yes, 11 pp).

In the same issue...

Allen, D. J. 2003. Phylogenetic determination of a new 
specimen confirms _Terrestrisuchus_ to be a junior 
synonym of _Saltoposuchus_. _Palaeontological 
Association Newsletter_ 53, 72-74.

Waterhouse, D. 2003. A new shorebird from the Green 
River Formation of Wyoming and its implications for the 
phylogeny of the order Charadriiformes. _Palaeontological 
Association Newsletter_ 53, 81-83.

-- 
Darren Naish
School of Earth & Environmental Sciences
University of Portsmouth UK, PO1 3QL

email: darren.naish@port.ac.uk
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