Re: Protarchaeopteryx: what is it?

[Thom Quinn <swo@execpc.com>]

IS there an English translation of the Chinese article on
_Protarchaeopteryx_ anywhere? Does anyone have a jpeg of
Protarchaeopteryx, I would like it for my presentation at Dinofest.

Thanks
Thom Quinn

Ralph Miller III wrote:
> 
> What is _Protarchaeopteryx_?  The _Scientific American_ article on the
> origin of birds stated that the fossil represented a maniraptoran theropod
> which might or might not be a bird.  Has the second specimen (neither
> depicted nor described in the _S.A._ article) revealed any new information
> which would enable paleontologists to better identify its affinities?  Is
> it a bird or not?
> 
> -- Ralph Miller III     gbabcock@best.com