Re: really big question

[Jordan Mallon <j_mallon@hotmail.com>]

> From: Cliff Green <dinonaut@emerytelcom.net>

> However, I still don't think everyone exactly got my point. The
> pelecanimimus discription, provided By Ralph Miller says that birds where
> found on the site with feather impressions. Fish where found with scale and
> internal tissue preservation. Pelecanimimis was found with skin, tissue, 
> and
> keritaneous preservation, and no, repeat no plumage impressions. Saying 
> that
> with all the other animals at the site having this amazing amount of
> preservation, and Pelicanimimis's feathers not showing up because of bad
> preservation is at best,  miraculous.

I guess the big question is whether EVERY bird and EVERY fish found at the 
site preserves feathers or scales.  If just one bird, for example, was 
preserved without feathers, it presents the possibility that maybe the 
supposed feathers of _Pelecanimimus_ weren't preserved either.
Just taught (as in I taught I taw a puddy tat).

Jordan Mallon

Undergraduate Student, Carleton University
Vertebrate Paleontology & Paleoecology

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