Re: Peculiar Femoral Feathers

["Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>]

Dear all,

  The only analogue that I can see to the elongated femoral feathers on
these fossils (especially NGMC 91 ["Dave"]) would be *Sharovipteryx*,
which has an extensive uropatagium, and pterosaurs come in such a minor
second place: the chord of the uropatagium is the length of the femur.

  I'm personally looking in to *Sharovipteryx*, so perhaps time will
tell...


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Jaime A. Headden

  Little steps are often the hardest to take.  We are too used to making leaps 
in the face of adversity, that a simple skip is so hard to do.  We should all 
learn to walk soft, walk small, see the world around us rather than zoom by it.

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