Re: Lazarus species (Original reference)

[HPB1956@aol.com]

Jaime A. Headden wrote on 25.10.2000:

> Chatterjee's Maleri and Dockum faunas are forcing a consideration of many
> Cretaceous forms as being Lazarus lineages in and of themselves.

Which are these triassic forms and how reliable are the assignments to 
certain taxa? AFAIK some fossils of Chatterjee were redescribed and moved to 
other taxa.

About 230ma ago - at the time of the dinosaur Big Bang - an intense mosaic 
evolution took place. This resulted in the creation of many new groups of 
dinosaurs in a short period of time. Due to the vagaries of fossilization 
some of these seem to appear only very much later in the fossil record. So 
confirmation of what Jaime A. Headden wrote would show again how fast 
dinosaurs were able to diversify.

I hope somebody can help


Cheers

Heinz Peter Bredow