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Stanley Friesen said: 5th April 98:
>But, as it is, there is really no way to tell how "bird-like" the small >woodland theropods of the mid-Jurassic really were, as we have no fossils >of them one way or the other. GSP suggests that although we know of fewer
small woodland J creatures
than we would like, we know of enough insects,
pterosaurs etc to be able
to say the absence of the small theropods we are
loooking for may be
significant. I would like to think he is
wrong but suspect he may be right.
By the way, presumably it is no longer true, as it was in
1988, that the
"Gasosaurus Gap" as I think of it, is still 10
million years long? (Total
absence of any theropod fossil worldwide). If it is,
then what we're looking
for may really be there but hiding.
JJ
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