Re: Mesozoic snow?

[Aidan Karley <aidan_karley@yahoo.co.uk>]

In article <00fc01c57291$fc225520$0100a8c0@yourynxza5usuu>, K and T Dykes 
wrote:
> There are about 100 of these teeth, and the average height is 1.65mm.
> That's considerably larger than Archie von Solnhofen.
>
       Ohhh, interesting.
       
> (Your sieving acquaintance from the fissure fillings might have had a heart
> attack at this place.
>
       Poor Jayne. If that was her name. Long time ago. But I think she got 
her lambskin headache, so she can't have been too sad about it.
       
> <<Whatever that means>>
> 
> Quickly done:
>
       Thanks. I think I'd got most of it apart from the last sentence. Very 
interesting the way that a volumetrically small amount of material can yield 
a lot of population information.
       The half-joke about mammal teeth which was told while Jayne was 
presenting her work to the departmental seminars was that the entire Mesozoic 
history of the Mammalia could be fitted into a small shoe box, and almost 
exclusively consisted of individual teeth which mated with teeth unseen, to 
give rise to new types of teeth.
       
-- 
 Aidan Karley,
 Aberdeen, Scotland,
 Location: 57°10' N,  02°09'  W (sub-tropical Aberdeen), 0.021233
 Written at Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:44 +0100



                
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