Re: Would it be surprising, or not, to find an almost identical specimen of a dino (say, allosaurus)....

[Dann Pigdon <dannj@alphalink.com.au>]

On Fri, Oct 28th, 2011 at 3:18 AM, Brian Hathaway <hammeris1@att.net> wrote:

> Yes, very true.  Perhaps the experts were misquoted in the news story,
> or that they were not referring to the specific species of Pelagornis 
> cilenisis,
> but to the genus.  50 million years!  Even Dick Clark didn't last that long.

The direct quote is:

"Bony-toothed birds were a very successful group, living during most of the 
Cenozoic period over a 
time span of 50 to 60 million years."

The article isn't mentioning any particular species, or even genus, when it 
gives the 50-60 million 
year timespan. It's like saying that coelacanths or lungfish as general groups 
have been around for 
400 million years. It doesn't imply that any individual species or even genus 
has lasted all that time.

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Dann Pigdon
Spatial Data Analyst               Australian Dinosaurs
Melbourne, Australia               http://home.alphalink.com.au/~dannj
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