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Re: Arboreal? Flying?

To: granth@ziplink.net
Subject: Re: Arboreal? Flying?
From: Jonathon Woolf <jwoolf@erinet.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 06:32:59 -0700
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Grant Harding wrote:
> 
> Which of these animals was probably arboreal, and which could fly?
> 

Archy, Patagopteryx, Iberomesornis, and Ichthyornis are birds, and I'm
pretty sure all of them could fly.

Compsognathus could have been arboreal; it's certainly small enough.

Procompsognathus -- is that even a valid taxon anymore?

The other genera you list are too big to be habitually arboreal,
especially in a world where the most common trees didn't have climbable
limbs.  

-- JSW

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- Arboreal? Flying?
  - From: Grant Harding <granth@ziplink.net>

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