Re: did Jurassic dinosaurs have feathers?

["T. Michael Keesey" <keesey@gmail.com>]

On Jan 7, 2008 10:22 PM, Tim Williams <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com> wrote:
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>
> One possibility (definitely Type III = no bloody evidence at all!) is that a 
> fuzzy body covering is primitive for Ornithodira, and was retained by certain 
> pterosaurs (like _Sordes_ etc) and dinosaurs (especially small theropods), 
> but lost (or scaled back) independently in many lineages.  [...] Highly 
> speculative, I know, and as I write this I find myself less and less 
> convinced that it's even plausible.


Well, you wouldn't be the first person to bring it up on this list:
http://dml.cmnh.org/1996Feb/msg00364.html

(Yes, 1996. Unfortunately I don't seem to have had the good netiquette
to have left in the attribution to the original poster.)

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