Re: Rugops and Spinostropheus in USA Today

[Mike Taylor <mike@indexdata.com>]

> Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 08:58:58 -0400
> From: "Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <tholtz@geol.umd.edu>
> 
> http://www.usatoday.com/news/science/2004-06-01-dinosaur-usat_x.htm

Interesting.  According to this article, someone called Thomas Holtz
Jr. says ``dinosaur scientists and geologists will be interested in
what the fossils show about how the ancient continents split and how
the abelisaurids related to one another across continents.''  What I'd
like to ask Dr. Holtz if I ever met him is, why is this interpreted as
meaning that SA and Africa were in contact for an extra 15 million
years, and not that abelisaurid evolution was pretty conservative for
15 million years?

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