Re: _Odontochelys semitestacea_ comes out of its shell

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

> How fascinating that we see this fossil so soon after _Chinlechelys 
> tenertesta_ (Joyce et al. in press, Proc. R. Soc. B), which was described 
> as supporting the osteoderm theory!

It's out? ...

<crickets chirping>

... Oh. Google says it was all over the blogosphere in the beginning of 
October, except for the two blogs I read regularly. Shame on me. Pulverized 
coprolites over my head. <slowly sinks through floor, complete with chair>

> I wonder how each group of researchers will interpret the other's 
> discovery.

Well, how? The celebrity deathmatch will simply go into the next round. :-| 
And I will add both to my developing matrix*. Bloodbath, here I 
come!!!11!!!1!!!11!1!

* Though certainly not this year anymore -- I'm fully occupied with 
eliminating the duplicate and quintuplicate characters from the different 
sources it contains, and when that is done, I'll add two or three more 
published matrices, at least.