Re: SIMILAR BIRD TRACKS 70 MILLION YEARS APART

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

Hi Tom,

    Thanks for the suggestions.  Glad your system is back up.  It is a busy
weekend for me, but I'll be back in touch on the naming matter.

    Any movement on the clay pit front?

    Every good wish,
    Ray

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

----- Original Message -----
From: <Tompaleo@aol.com>
To: <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2001 10:24 AM
Subject: Re: SIMILAR BIRD TRACKS 70 MILLION YEARS APART


In a message dated 9/22/2001 10:07:44 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
NJPharris@aol.com writes:

> As to that first set of Maryland bird tracks, perhaps I could assign
>  > them to a new ichnogenus, evocative of what the bird was walking
through.

How about Patuxentites since these are ichnites from the Patuxent Fm. of the
Potomac Grp? Stratigraphically and possibly  temporally, it would help to
use
names indicative of the _formational_ unit and/or the textural differnces
between the overlying Arundel Clay (predominant clay/silt)and the
predominant
sands, gravels, and iron cemented mudstones and ss of the Patuxent Fm. We
could also come up with something based on the inferred paleoenvironment as
well.

Ray,

I have just about gotten my system back on line and hope to catch up on
email
over the weekend. If you want some suggestions based on the above criteria
let me know.

Thomas R. Lipka
Geobiological  Research
2733 Kildaire Drive
Baltimore, Md. 21234 USA