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Re: Oldest humerus found

The Science paper says that Hynerpeton comes from the same one-meter lens that produced this fossil, but that it's about 50% larger than they would expect for Hynerpeton, so they can't be sure if the fossil comes from Hynerpeton or from another tetrapod taxon. When I talked to Neil Shubin, he seemed fairly certain it was a new taxon, but he has not named it. -- Jeff Hecht
"fam jansma" <fam.jansma@tiscali.nl> wrote 
Is this the humerus of Hynerpeton...an early tetrapod from the same general
region?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Hecht" <jeff@jeffhecht.com>
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Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 3:46 PM
Subject: Oldest humerus found


 Some nice work by Neil Shubin and Ted Daeschler on an early humerus
 of an amphibian that could push its body up, but couldn't walk. I
 have a report up at

 http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994843

 and the paper is in Science.

 It looks like the evolutionary "tree" for ancestral amphibians was as
 shrubby as the transition from bird to dinosaur, with lots of
 evolutionary experiments going on simultaneously.
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