Re: Mesozoic snow?

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

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----- Original Message -----
From: "K and T Dykes" <ktdykes@arcor.de>
To: "DML" <dinosaur@usc.edu>; <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 10:06 PM
Subject: Re: Mesozoic snow?

> <<A decisive result is the hint at a high diversity of theropods at that 
> site, even though because of the uncertainty of the identifications no 
> further conclusions can be drawn yet.>>
>
> That's an improvement on my quickly done version of the final sentence, 
> (though I'd opt for something like 'significant' rather than 'decisive'. 
> If a thing isn't 'decisive' then it's not a 'result').

Good point. I didn't find anything better in English.

> Anyway, there are mitigating circumstances.  Firstly, I was desperately 
> trying not to waffle on about the mammal fauna of Guimarota.  Secondly, 
> I'm hoping for the birth of a new gobiconodontid from Liaoning.  With no 
> connection whatsoever to this list, somebody posed a question.  That led 
> me to trip over the following citation on Jin Meng's American Museum of 
> Natural History homepage: Meng J, Hu Y-m, Wang Y-q & Li C-k (2005), A new 
> gobiconodont species (Mammalia) from the Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation 
> of Liaoning, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica.  There are no page numbers 
> mentioned, so the article probably wasn't published when this was 
> uploaded, (and the citation wasn't on his page a few weeks ago).
>
> I've got reason to believe it's also a new genus.  More info would be 
> welcome, should anybody have any.

Yet one more gobiconodontid from that place?!? Was it completely flooded 
with those angry, biting fuzzballs?