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Re: Preservation of color patterns

To: DML <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Subject: Re: Preservation of color patterns
From: Jordan Mallon <jordan.mallon@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 15:46:02 -0500
In-reply-to: <20050328.115028.-981471.0.bigelowp@juno.com>
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Reply-to: Jordan Mallon <jordan.mallon@gmail.com>
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On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 11:50:26 -0800 (pst), Phil Bigelow
<bigelowp@juno.com> wrote:

> Re: the _Sinosauropteryx_ with the purported striped tail.  Have any
> paleoartists depicted this animal with such a pattern?

Sure.  Greg Paul did in his DA book.  In fact, he was one of the first
to mention (to my knowledge) the striped pattern preserved on the
tail.  I think he might've mentioned that either in a Prehistoric
Times article, or maybe it was in his same book.  Can't remember.

-- 
Jordan Mallon

4th year undergraduate student, Carleton University
Vertebrate Palaeontology & Palaeoecology

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References:
- Preservation of color patterns
  - From: Phil Bigelow <bigelowp@juno.com>

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