RE: Bambiraptor complete!

["Williams, Tim" <TiJaWi@agron.iastate.edu>]

David Marjanovic wrote:

>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*. 

Could it have been a tail feather, rather than from the wing?

Or, maybe the isolated feather didn't come from a bird at all, but from a
non-avian theropod.  Who says non-volant theropods couldn't have asymmetric
feathers?

As for "Saurier und Vögel des Weissjura am Harz entdeckt" (a publication by
that esteemed ancient paleontologist Anonymous), all we have is the title to
go on.  

By the way, I have no ideological objection to there being more than one
archaeopterygid genus or species from Solnhofen; _A. bavarica_ should
probably be kept as a distinct species, IMHO.  But after reading papers by
Howgate and Elzanowski, I'm not convinced that _Jurapteryx_ and
_Wellnhoferia_ are good genera, particularly in light of the allometric
studies on _A. lithographica_.



Tim



Tim