RE: shedding light on plume shedding issue

[David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

> --- Ursprüngliche Nachricht ---
> Von: Tim Williams <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com>
> Datum: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 10:42:34 -0600
>
> Jaime Headden wrote:
>
> >   Plant fronds described as *Proornis* were originally described as 
> >feathers,
>
> That would be  _Praeornis sharovi_

*Proornis* also exists; it's the ???confuciusornithid??? from North Korea, 
presumably known from a complete skeleton with feathers (but who knows).

Isolated Early Cretaceous feathers are known from several continents. One 
from Spain has even received the (rather useless) name *Ilerdopteryx 
viai*.

> From another thread...
>
> > Well, there is an "upon" sense in this [...] an elaboration "upon"

I wonder if this works in any language other than English...

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