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To: Dataman
[Archaeopteryx is ...] 75 million years too late.

A typical page on Protoavis.

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Some bones may belong to a pterosaur, others to some kind of theropod.
Chatterjee's reconstruction is a controversial one from remains in very poor shape, an unarticulated pile of bone fragments that may well represent the remains of more than one animal. However, you need it exactly as Chatterjee claimed it and that's what counts. As far as you're concerned, it's golden.

Here's an absolutely uncritical one based totally on Chatterjee.

"A bird! Just a modern bird!" With teeth and a bony tail any modern lizard would envy. No real evidence for flight except a "maybe" on a supracoideus pulley.

429 posted on 03/13/2003 7:16:11 AM PST by VadeRetro
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To: VadeRetro
IOW, since the evidence isn't conclusive, we should ignore it until conclusive evidence is found?
432 posted on 03/13/2003 7:39:12 AM PST by Dataman
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