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RE: shedding light on plume shedding issue

Wouldn't the obvious reason for so many discovered shed parafeathers be that they have a calamus equivalent (so would be expected to shed periodically like feathers and fur), but are rather large and distinctive-looking? And since they are a dual planar surface instead of filamentous, they could very well preserve more easily than even remiges do.

Mickey Mortimer

From: David Peters <davidrpeters@earthlink.net>
Reply-To: davidrpeters@earthlink.net
To: dinosaur@usc.edu
Subject: shedding light on plume shedding issue
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 14:55:13 -0600

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/steve.woodward/shedding.html

The above website _might_ give insight into the loose Longisquama
'feathers' issue. Could those loose plumes be hollow dermal tissue? as
in Iguana spines?

David Peters
St. Louis