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Re: Vegavis gen. nov. - new anseriform in today's Nature

To: David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>
Subject: Re: Vegavis gen. nov. - new anseriform in today's Nature
From: John Bois <jbois@umd5.umd.edu>
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 14:13:07 -0500 (EST)
Cc: DML <dinosaur@usc.edu>
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On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, David Marjanovic wrote:

> It's true that they refute Feduccia's extreme version. Fossil evidence for a
> diversification of Neoaves in the K is however still lacking, as the article
> itself stresses.

"Extreme version"????  What else should you expect from the extreme
version of extinctions around the K/T?

Birds should have been affected as badly as non-avian dinosaurs.  The more
species we find that are ancestral to extant species, the less support
there is for an instantaneous, all-encompassing catastrophe.

References:
- RE: Vegavis gen. nov. - new anseriform in today's Nature
  - From: Tim Williams <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com>
- Re: Vegavis gen. nov. - new anseriform in today's Nature
  - From: David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>

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