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Re: More ado about Archaeopteryx

To: Farlow@ipfw.edu, "dinosaur@usc.edu" <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Subject: Re: More ado about Archaeopteryx
From: Betty Cunningham <bettyc@flyinggoat.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 10:45:35 -0700
References: <00186822.CE21227@ipfw.edu>
Reply-to: bettyc@flyinggoat.com
Sender: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu

you mean like polydactyl cat toes?
 a common occurance of misnumbered toes

-Betty

Farlow@ipfw.edu wrote:
> in all the instances that I know of, this loss of one of the digit IV
> phalanges is characteristic of the entire species, rather than the
> occasional odd individual of the species.  Does anybody out there know
> of instances in extant bird species where there is a reduction in the
> foot phalangeal count of aberrant individuals?

References:
- More ado about Archaeopteryx
  - From: Farlow@ipfw.edu

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