Re: Two more gaps in the fossil record
David Campbell (bivalve@mailserv0.isis.unc.edu)
Mon, 18 Oct 1999 10:11:52 -0400
>A transitional fossil of a flying dinosaur has been found. The news report
>is on the AP wire. THey call this form Archaeoraptor and it lived between
>120 and 140 myr. The fossil is reported to have traits of both dinos and
>birds, including hollow bones which is a bird trait.
Lots of dinosaurs have hollow bones, not necessarily very close to birds.
Although some of the points raised by Fedducia and others in the "birds are
not dinosaurs" camp are weak, it is true that some of purported
bird-dinosaur links are features also found in other archosaurs if not
other non-archosaur reptiles.
David C.