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Re: it's back!

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Subject: Re: it's back!
From: "T. Michael Keesey" <keesey@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:15:16 -0700
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On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Erik Boehm <erikboehm07@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Did anyone notice the article stated:
> "Together with this dinosaur, the biota also included a lot of insects, 
> plants, salamanders, lizards, haired pterosaurs, primitive swimming and 
> flying mammals."
>
> What would those flying mammals be?
> I thought the earliest known bat was from the Eocene, yet this article seems 
> to claim a Jurrassic origin.

Presumably it's referring to _Volaticotherium antiquum_, a gliding stem-therian.

-- 
T. Michael Keesey
Technical Consultant and Developer, Internet Technologies
Glendale, California

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