Re: Protoavis

["Christopher Pearsoll" <c_pearsoll@hotmail.com>]

One point that, to me anyway, seems to be constantly overlooked when it 
comes to Protoavis, is that Chatterjee has to demonstrate that at least one 
of the bones in Protoavis is genuinely avian and he wins this debate about 
whether or not there were Triassic avian dinosaurs.  I for one beleive that 
the whole of Protoavis is a chimera, including lepidosaur, non-avian 
dinosaur, and possibly avian dinosaur remains.  AFAIK, he has not done that. 
 All I have seen of Protoavis are the pictures from his book, The Rise of 
Birds, and I, admittedly, am not knowledgeable enough (yet) to tell exactly 
what he has there amoung the bone fragments he has collected.



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