RE: shedding light on plume shedding issue

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

Richard W. Travsky (rtravsky@uwyo.edu) wrote:

<Have feathers, shed or otherwise, been found by themselves?>

  Plant fronds described as *Proornis* were originally described as feathers,
while the original specimen from Solnhofen that started the people buzzing was
describe by von Meyer and led to his invention of the name *Archeopteryx*, even
though his specimen when used to describe the species was the Berlin Specimen.
Isolated feathers have also been found in Cenozoic amber.

  Cheers,

Jaime A. Headden

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


        
                
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