Re: Theropod soft tissue

[pharrinj@PLU.edu]

On Thu, 11 Jan 1996 Dinogeorge@aol.com wrote:

> Nobody seems to have copped to the following article, in the latest issue of
> _Nature_:
> 
> Kellner, A. W. A., 1996. "Fossilized theropod soft tissue," _Nature
> 379_(6560): 32 [January 4, 1996].
> 
> There are SEM photos of a smallish ?maniraptoran specimen found in a
> calcareous concretion from the Santana Formation (which produces all those
> nice pterosaurs). Sorry, no feathers, scales, or ossicles--and they would
> have been preserved had they been present. The material includes a pelvis,
> hind limbs, and some caudal vertebrae in addition to the soft tissue. Blood
> vessels, muscle fibers, other good stuff.
> 

No feathers, no scales, no ossicles...  Hmmm...  Skinless theropods?