Re: Bambiraptor complete!

["David Marjanovic" <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

> Surely there could have been a number of
> similar species of archaeropterygids (and other dinobird families)
inhabiting
> the Late Jurassic Solnhofen region.

There is anyway evidence for several "birds" in LJ Germany. First of all,
the isolated feather falls at the lower end of the range of flying birds in
its asymmetry, unlike *Archaeopteryx*. Then the following ref speaks of
"*.saurs and birds" in the plural.

http://www.coldregions.org/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpub.dll?AC=GET_RECORD&XC=/dbtw-
wpd/exec/dbtwpub.dll&BU=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.coldregions.org%2Fdbtw-wpd%2Fqbepre
v.htm&TN=geoprev&SN=AUTO14770&SE=1696&RN=0&MR=20&RF=Table&DF=Single+Record&R
L=1&DL=0&NP=1&ID=&MF=&MQ=&TI=0

If this monster, er, *Amphicoelias fragillimus* URL is too much for you to
copy, go to http://previews.georef.org/dbtw-wpd/qbeprev.htm, search for the
title "Saurier und Vögel des Weissjura am Harz entdeckt" and then click
"full_record" for the full ref + key words. I haven't found the paper so
far. Thanks to HP Tommy Tyrberg who mentioned it onlist on July 3rd.