Re: Main "goals" of dinosaur paleontology in the 21st Century

[frank bliss <frank@blissnet.com>]

8.....How about a better integration of past and future work onto the 
world wide web.  The development of a central repository of photo 
identification keys for vertebrate and invertebrate fossils.  (Sort of 
a treatise of paleontology online.)  The things that you ask are 
cerebral, the things I suggest are practical and will make a huge 
difference to the former.
Frank Bliss
MS Biostratigraphy
Weston, Wyoimng
On Jun 6, 2005, at 11:30 AM, Vladimír Socha wrote:

> Good day!
> I've been recently thinking a little bit on this matter and decided to 
> make a short list of the main future "tasks" of this wonderful 
> science. I'd like to hear opinions of the DML members.
>
> 1.) Cause of dinosaur extinction
>
> 2.) Generally agreed cladogram
>
> 3.) Dinosaur thermophysiology
>
> 4.) Dinosaur K/T survival
>
> 5.) Gaining and extracting dinosaur "soft tissues" (and proteins...)
>
> 6.) Keeping the search for the largest sauropod/theropod and an for 
> more complete remains for elusive taxa (Deinocheirus, unnamed giant 
> Carcharodontosaurid, *Bruhathkayosaurus*, Amphicoelias etc.)
>
> 7.) Resolving question for how extensive lineage presented feathery 
> integument a synapomorphy.
>
> 8.)...?
>
> Thank you for any comment, Vlad
>
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