Re: Bird Evolution

[Stanley Friesen <sarima@ix.netcom.com>]

At 03:05 PM 4/5/98 +0100, John V Jackson wrote: 
>>>>
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.
<<<<
Well, there is the fact that all known pterosaurs are ones that lived near
water bodies.  Here, again, we know of no strictly *forest* species,
especially ones from an upland forest. Ditto for insects.



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