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Re: DINOSAUR digest 3384

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Subject: Re: DINOSAUR digest 3384
From: Nick Gardner <nick.gardner@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 14:30:04 -0500
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On 11/12/05, T. Michael Keesey <e-mail removed> wrote:
> As I alluded to under this comic: http://www.parryandcarney.com/comic/8.html
> ...I've yet to see anybody come up with a decent explanation for why
> crown clade avians made it through while other ornithothoracean birds
> didn't. Teeth aren't a good criterion, because some enantiornitheans
> were toothless.
>

And let's not forget confuciusornithids, Jeholornis, Sapeornis, many
oviraptorosaurs, ornithomimids, and more were also toothless :D

Nick Gardner

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