RE: tiny dinosaur

[Jaime Headden <qi_leong@hotmail.com>]

Oh, goody. It's finally published. I have a rather fundamental response to 
this, promised in my discussion with Darren at TetZoo. Tiny, yes ... but 
there's only so much you can say about a vertebra (and like Mike, I think more 
could have been done with it). Go to 
http://qilong.wordpress.com/2011/06/14/were-there-european-oviraptorosaurs/ if 
you _really_ want to see what I have to say.

Cheers,

Jaime A. Headden
The Bite Stuff (site v2)
http://qilong.wordpress.com/

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> Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 21:42:31 +0100
> From: mike@indexdata.com
> To: koreke77@yahoo.de
> CC: dinosaur@usc.edu
> Subject: Re: tiny dinosaur
>
> On 14 June 2011 21:40, evelyn sobielski  wrote:
> >> http://www.livescience.com/14576-tiny-fossil-smallest-dinosaur.html
> >
> > Congratulations Darren & Steve! The TetZoo post 
> > http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2011/05/tiny_cretaceous_theropod.php
> >  is awesome, very promising material! Do you have a PDF?
> >
> > A significance implication of such small adult size of is course with 
> > regards to the question of volancy.
>
> I would be remiss not to point out the SV-POW! post on this animal:
> http://svpow.wordpress.com/2011/05/25/darrens-new-indeterminate-wealden-maniraptoran-is-inadequate/