Re: Dino/bird amphibians

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

In article <005b01c57606$4c5753c0$690fa8c0@austin.rr.com>, Dora Smith 
wrote:
> Yes, many coelurusaurian (sp?) dinosaurs were very much like birds.
>
       One of the Archaeopteryx specimens identified in the mid-1980s 
was actually found in about 1957 (revision : 1955) but identified as a 
Compsognathus because no-one noticed the very faint feather 
impressions. 
http://homepages.ucalgary.ca/~longrich/eichstatt.html
http://palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk/Palaeofiles/Lagerstatten/solnhofen/fauna.h
tml has a nice, directly lit image of this specimen which shows the 
common dendritic manganese-iron oxide growths. 

[I combined fossicking at Solenhofen with total-eclipsing at Dachau in 
1999. Enjoyable, but no "wee-birdy" for me <G>.]

-- 
 Aidan Karley,
 Aberdeen, Scotland,
 Location: 57°10' N,  02°09'  W (sub-tropical Aberdeen), 0.021233
 Written at Tue, 21 Jun 2005 08:26 +0100



                
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