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Re: INTRODUCING Microraptor gui (or Cryptovolans pauli, or Microraptor pauli, or...)

To: "DML" <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Subject: Re: INTRODUCING Microraptor gui (or Cryptovolans pauli, or Microraptor pauli, or...)
From: "David Marjanovic" <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 00:18:13 +0100
References: <NDBBIAJHGJBHMGNKDFAHKEGJFFAA.tholtz@geol.umd.edu> <000901c2c266$d8934ca0$b38cec50@ordiaspidel>
Reply-to: david.marjanovic@gmx.at
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> I hope the leg feathers haven't be "added" to make the fossil more
> spectacular.
> How can one be sure those features are true?
>
> Cheers - Aspidel.

By CT-scanning the holotype... and by finding them on 6 specimens, in some
of them they weren't prepared yet when the IVPP got them. Read the paper.
:-)

References:
- INTRODUCING Microraptor gui (or Cryptovolans pauli, or Microraptor pauli, or...)
  - From: "Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <tholtz@geol.umd.edu>
- Re: INTRODUCING Microraptor gui (or Cryptovolans pauli, or Microraptor pauli, or...)
  - From: "Aspidel" <aspidel@wanadoo.be>

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