re: E and P of pterosaurs - more comments

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

David Peters (davidrpeters@earthlink.net) wrote:

<And in pteros, even a raw tracing is an interpretation.  You have to
start somewhere.>

  Best with the specimen itself, and if you have to rely on anything aside
from that specimen in person, very high quality and detailed photographs
of the specimen, with sets of photos of the parts of it. This reduces
interpretation a good deal. Otherwise, a skeletal drawing can be of least
use for coding purposes than a camera lucida drawing, or other form of
tracing.

<And that's what I'm offering.>

  Then we can wait until they do? Or we do?

<dp: It surprised me also the variety of sizes in pterosaur fingers and
toes. It's codable.>

  But this doesn't answer my question about relative displacement.

  Cheers,

=====
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.

"Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth." --- P.B. Medawar (1969)

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