Re: SIMILAR BIRD TRACKS 70 MILLION YEARS APART

[NJPharris@aol.com]

In a message dated Sat, 22 Sep 2001 11:28:12 AM Eastern Daylight Time, "Ray 
Stanford" <dinotracker@earthlink.net> writes:

> 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",

-bates is a deverbal noun derived from Greek "baino" "step, go".  It is at the 
root of compounds like "acrobat" and "aerobatic".  "Coprobates"="dung-stepper".

--Nick P.