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RE: When pterosaurs ate dragonflies

To: dinosaur@usc.edu
Subject: RE: When pterosaurs ate dragonflies
From: Tim Williams <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:10:45 -0500
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Mark Witton wrote:

> I've been meaning to get around to doing this for a while: does anyone
> out there know anything about the Solnhofen dragonfly that's alledgedly
> had a bite taken out of its wings by a pterosaur? Ultra-keen fans of
> fossilised pterosaur trophic interactions can find a picture at:
>
> http://www.pterosaurier.de/libelle_mit_pterosaurierbiss_01_o.jpg

Why couldn't the dragonfly have been bitten by an _Archaeopteryx_?  Or even a 
leaping non-avian theropod?

Looks like a job for "CSI: Solnhofen".

Cheers

Tim
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