Re: Proto-penguins lived with dinosaurs

[Jean-Michel Benoit <s.aegyptiacus@wanadoo.fr>]

David Marjanovic just sent me the link.
Jean-Michel

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jean-Michel Benoit" <s.aegyptiacus@wanadoo.fr>
To: <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2006 11:07 AM
Subject: Re: Proto-penguins lived with dinosaurs


> Hello all
> any photo or reconstruction of the fossils available on online, by any
> chance?
> Cheers,
> Jean-Michel
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>
> To: <dinosaur@usc.edu>
> Cc: <bigelowp@juno.com>
> Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2006 10:13 AM
> Subject: Re: Proto-penguins lived with dinosaurs
>
>
> > Phil Bigelow (bigelowp@juno.com) wrote:
> >
> > <It is an interesting (even an important) find.  But it does raise a big
> > paleoecological question.  Since modern penguins are pelagic feeders, I
> wonder
> > what their K-T ancestors ate during the mass extinction.  (The K-T event
> was
> > not particularly kind to pelagic taxa).>
> >
> >   *Waimanu* itself does not appear to be a "penguin" form sphenisciform.
> It
> > possesses longer, albeit still flightless, forelimbs, jointed elbows,
> implying
> > a possibly different wingstroke, less robust bones, and a more slender
> > mandible, resembling something more akin to a loon to my eyes.
> >
> >   And that makes my mind shift towards Chatterjee's "loon."
> >
> >   Cheers,
> >
> > Jaime A. Headden
> > http://bitestuff.blogspot.com/
> >
> > "Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth." --- P.B. Medawar (1969)
> >
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