Re: Dendrorhynchoids

[Dinogeorge@aol.com]

In a message dated 3/16/00 5:28:40 AM EST, qilongia@yahoo.com writes:

<<   Xu and Zhao (1998) named some new pterosaurs from
 Liaoning, and one of them ended up *Dendrorhynchus*,
 but this turns out to be preoccupied, so in a short
 "Biostratigraphy of New Pterosaurs from China" piece
 in Nature, they renamed it *Dendrorhynchoides* as so
 often happens in unimaginitive renamings of
 preoccupied dino-taxa. It doesn't look like a
 rhamphorynchid anyway, but more like a dimorphodont,
 as Dave Peters can tell you. >>

Isn't this pterosaur based on a pterodactyloid specimen to which a long, 
rhamphorhynchoid tail has been added artificially (as noted in the 
Archaeoraptor flap)? Would like to have this confirmed, of course.