Re: weird jurassic dinobird with very weird feathers

[Dora Smith <villandra@austin.rr.com>]

Had to find out what's an avialan - Wikipedia article on the subject 
actually says that Archeopteryx is Jurassic in origin.

> From the discussion it rather looks as if bird ancestors were a huge clade. 
Lotta pigeon-like things running around.

Yours,
Dora Smith
Austin, TX
tiggernut24@yahoo.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Marjanovic" <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>
To: "DML" <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 5:55 PM
Subject: Re: weird jurassic dinobird with very weird feathers


> Wow. Wow. Wow!!!
>
> Go here http://precedings.nature.com/documents/2326/version/1 to see the 
> abstract and download the pdf. It is _free access_! Nature offers free 
> access to a preprint -- what is the world coming to! :-)
>
> Being from the Daohugou Bed, *Epidexipteryx* is _not_ Middle Jurassic in 
> age, but Late Jurassic or Early Cretaceous up to Barremian, probably close 
> to the end of this range. I will now have to stay up till 2 at night 
> <sigh> and read the whole thing...