Re: New Cretaceous mammals

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

Interestingly I got one copy of this in HTML and the other in "plain" text 
without line breaks. This should mean that some listmembers didn't get it at 
all. So I repeat the whole thing.

----- Original Message -----
From: "K and T Dykes" <ktdykes@arcor.de>
To: <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>
Cc: <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 3:53 PM
Subject: Re: New Cretaceous mammals

> <<(Link doesn't work. Go to http://app.pan.pl and click "Current 
> Issue".)>>
>
> Boddle.  That was an old APP link to the abstract on /Daulestes nessovi/. 
> For the working link to /Uchkudukodon/:
> http://app.pan.pl/acta51/app51-351.pdf
>
> <<Phil Senter: Scapular orientation in theropods and [sic] basal birds, 
> and the origin of flapping flight
> Why didn't you tell us!>>

An interesting paper. Says even *Confuciusornis* was incapable of flapping 
flight -- and WAIR -- because it wasn't able to lift its arms above shoulder 
level. Now, if basal birds actually looked like gliding squirrels or 
parachuting geckos... ~:-|

> I didn't notice.  They're not furry enough to stand out.  Besides, I was 
> busy trying to learn how to spell /Uchkudukodon/.  That sort of thing 
> takes time.  Uchkuduk is a city in Uzbekistan and the name comes from the 
> Kazkh for 'three' and 'well'.  And there's the world cup to keep track of.
>
> Did I mention the Paleocene ammonites in the final edition of last year? 
> I noticed them despite their complete lack of hair.
> Marcin Machalski, 2005
> Late Maastrichtian and earliest Danian scaphitid ammonites from central 
> Europe: Taxonomy, evolution, and extinction.
> http://app.pan.pl/acta50/app50-653.pdf

Someone did, I think. The ammonite people in the museum here assure me that 
all talk of Danian ammonites is utter nonsense, but then, they say the same 
about end-Maastrichtian ammonites with the same amount of confidence... :-/

That said... sorry for the ad-hominem "argument"... should I trust someone 
who erects fossil subspecies!?! Machalski does that in the same paper. --  
The paper that argues that the Danian moulds of scaphitid and baculitid 
ammonites of Stevns Klint indeed belong to Danian survivors (as opposed to 
being reworked, I suppose) is cited as being in press.