Re: solnhofen

["Tim Williams" <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com>]

Dan Bensen wrote:

> I had heard that Archaeopteryx could have been a fish-eater, too.  I think 
> it HP
> Gregory S. Paul that made the case for piscivory in Predatory Dinosaurs of 
> the
> World.
> It sounds like Archaeopteryx was a jack-of-all-trades, a gerneralist, like 
> a crow.


Yes, that's how I picture it too.  Archie's "generalist" behavior probably 
extends to its opportunistic use of trees as a combined look-out and 
launch-pad.


Tim



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