Re: SIMILAR BIRD TRACKS 70 MILLION YEARS APART

["Ray Stanford" <dinotracker@earthlink.net>]

Nick,

    Concerning the two sequential Maryland Early Cretaceous bird tracks
recorded in coprolite, you said concerning a name appropriate to their being
preserved in a coprolite (fossilized dung), "_Coprobates_, perhaps?"

    I don't know what you might mean by "...bates", unless it refers to a
"bate", in its meaning as a bath, originally of DUNG, used by tanners after
liming, to remove the lime and soften the hide.  Thus, are you saying "dung
bath",  or is there some other sense in which you are using it?  Please
enlighten me, off-list or on.


Ray Stanford

"You know my method.  It is founded upon the observance of trifles." --
Sherlock Holmes in The Boscombe Valley Mystery