Re: Meet Protopteryx: two Yixian maniraptorans in one week!

["T. Mike Keesey" <tmk@dinosauricon.com>]

On Fri, 8 Dec 2000 ELurio@aol.com wrote:

> Isn't it funny that in the recent "refutation" of Longisumata (sic) that 
> what's described in (i) above was laughed off has having nothing whatsoever 
> to do with the evolution of feathers!

That's because the structures were not attached to a bird-like
animal. _Longisquama_ appears to be some sort of non-archosauriform
diapsid.

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