RE: Bird-like tracks from Late Triassic (new Nature issue)

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

Allan Edels wrote:

> Hopefully, people won't be jumping on the "BAND"-wagon.  :-)  

The wheels fell off that wagon long ago.  No, this new ichnofossil doesn't
give any help at all to BAND.  


<< I can see Dinogeorge smiling now.  -- Or is that a grin?  :) >>

> It's merely a grin for now. The smile will come when the skeletal
> fossils of these little animals, preferably with feather traces, 
> finally wend their way out of the ground.

Good idea.  The authors were careful to point out that the feet of these
critters were not specialized for perching.  If there was a whole slew of
'dino-birds' flitting around in the Triassic adapted for life up in trees -
as predicted by BCF - then I'd expected a foot better designed for an
arboreal lifestyle.  



Tim