Re: feather tracts (and spiny tails?)

[NJPharris@aol.com]

In a message dated 7/15/01 2:50:08 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
qilongia@yahoo.com writes:


>   *Sinosauropteryx* appears to have had an alternating pattern
> of long and short rachi on the tail, looking like a horse-tail
> frond from a distance, and it is possible this tail was
> "quilled."


I was under the impression that the patchy-looking arrangement of fibers
around the tail of _S._ was because some of the fibers went with the part and
others with the counterpart of the specimen.

--Nick P.