Free Republic
Browse · Search
Smoky Backroom
Topics · Post Article

To: AndrewC
So sinosauropteryx cannot be a predecessor of Archaeopteryx.

Yep. Sinosauropteryx was a Coelurosaur, which were contemporaries of Archaeopteryx and probably shared an ancestor, but were not directly related.

http://www.micro.utexas.edu/courses/mcmurry/spring98/21/justin.html

So what was your point again?

883 posted on 03/18/2003 1:21:55 PM PST by gomaaa
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 874 | View Replies ]


To: gomaaa
So what was your point again?

Archie is older than sino by at least 15 million years. Archie has impressions of advanced feathers of a type associated with flight. Sino has "fuzzy" impressions. This chart shows Sino (among other feathered creatures) as older than Archie.


887 posted on 03/18/2003 1:35:32 PM PST by AndrewC (Jello™ is suing Darwininians for patent infringement)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 883 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Smoky Backroom
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson