Re: Speaking of Protoarchaeopteryx...

[MariusRomanus@aol.com]

Yeah... Sorry. Little type-o. Caudipteryx is indeed prettier, and it helps to 
have more than one floating around out there.

Thanks
Kris
http://hometown.aol.com/Saurierlagen/Paleo-Photography.html 

In a message dated 3/28/2006 1:48:34 AM Alaskan Standard Time, 
bigelowp@juno.com writes:

Try googling using _Protarchaeopteryx_.  There is no "o" after the first
"t".

> In fact, one hardly 
> sees the animal 
> reconstructed either... Caudipteryx, on the other hand, is 
> everywhere.

Just a guess, but the Caudie type is a "prettier" specimen.  Book authors
tend to favor it for that reason.