Re: Sinosauropteryx at Dinofest

[Betty Cunningham <bettyc@flyinggoat.com>]

Ralph and I are square on what I actually asked. I wanted to know if
things that "eted' the eyes in the first 24 hours were all dead, not
what 'rotted' the eyes that quickly.

-Betty

Ralph Miller III wrote:
> 
> Regarding my post today on Betty's question about the taphonomy of
> _Sinosauropteryx_ specimens which are claimed to have intact eyeballs, my
> ignorance is showing.  (Again?)!
> 
> While it may be that anything and everything died at virtually the same
> instant in Liaoning in the Cretaceous (a la Pompeii), I haven't a clue what
> happened next that would have enabled the eyes to be preserved, when -- as
> Betty asserts -- the eye tissues should have been the first items to rot
> away.