Re: the Benevento theropod is named!

["Jaime Headden" <jaemei@hotmail.com>]

Tom Holtz wrote:

<I would like the opportunity to be the first to publically call it 
Skippy the Dinosaur. :-)>

I agree. Skippy's just a great name for this little dino, and too 
obvious to pass up. I was putting on headphones, and saw Beri's 
illustration of the dino (great pic, Beri!) and I thought "Skippy". I've 
caught the name, I guess.

PRESERVATION OF SKIPPY'S GUTS

Chris Nedin wrote:

<Exceptional preservation such as this depends on a carefully maintained 
microenvironment in order to precipitate the calcium phosphate and 
calcium carbonate necessary to preserve soft tissue.
Thus only the internal 'soft' tissues will decay rapidly enough to 
produce enough acid  plus dissolved phosphate levels to allow soft 
tissue mineralisation.  The outer tissues will loose acidity and 
phosphate concentration to the external environment and will not 
preserve soft tissues.>

What is the process for the preservation of integument as Archie's  and 
Protarchaeopteryx feathers and Sinosauropteryx's protofeathers, and even 
all the others with such preservation? They all, apparently, came from 
lagoon deposits except the Yixian specimens.

Jaime A. Headden
Qilongia

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