Re: the headless juvenile Pterodaustro

[David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

> > As long as you don't make the 100 % resolution pic available, it doesn't
> > matter what I say, because you have a killer argument: "it may not be
> > visible in this pic, but it's obvious in the one I used".
>
>  Look again.
>
> http://www.pterosaurinfo.com/pterodaustro.html

Do you mean this 
http://www.pterosaurinfo.com/pterodaustro_juv_insitu_cu.html? It does not 
have higher resolution, it's a mere null magnification of the photo you 
showed us yesterday. It has millimeter-sized pixels (and looks slightly 
descreened, which makes matters worse, not better).

I hereby claim that the "5th finger" is a break -- a flake of bone has 
broken off, the break edge is well lit, and its highest peaks are what you 
interpret as phalanges. Whatever. If I won't forget, I'll make you at least 
two different tracings of that photo on Monday (in the lab), and in the 
evening I'll upload them on my website. I bet that nobody, myself included, 
will be able to falsify ANY of your or my tracings based on that 
coarse-grained photo.

What is the point of the enlarged inset? It has pixels perhaps 3 mm across. 
That's useless. Incomprehensibly, you made it still worse by _descreening 
it_. :-o It's so foggy I can't see _anything_ in it, except the remains of 
the original pixels!!!

And... BTW... have you ever asked yourself what advantage a pterosaur would 
have by not losing the wing finger claw and the 5th finger? I can't imagine 
a function for them.