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Re: solnhofen

To: dinosaur@usc.edu
Subject: Re: solnhofen
From: "Tim Williams" <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 13:17:51 -0500
Reply-to: twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com
Sender: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu

I wrote:

IMHO, BCF may be true in a limited context (I'm prepared to believe that oviraptorosaurs might be secondarily flightless birds) - but ALL ground-dwelling theropods representing birds that lost the power of stroke!!!???


Oops.  That should be "power of flight!!!???".

And as I said before, as an explanation for the development of the predatory stroke in maniraptoran theropods, BCF makes good sense.

Tim

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Timothy J. Williams

USDA/ARS Researcher
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Iowa State University
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