RE: Reinterpretation of Samrukia as a pterosaur

[Brad McFeeters <archosauromorph2@hotmail.com>]

How reliable are the dates on the Royal Society's journals now?  The special 
dinosaur issue of Proc. R. Soc. B containing the descriptions of *Beishanlong,* 
*Xionguanlong*, *Tianyuraptor* et al. is dated January 22, 2010, but I've heard 
the print edition was actually distributed before the end of 2009.

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> Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 21:22:55 +0100
> From: j.falconnet@gmail.com
> To: qi_leong@hotmail.com
> CC: dinosaur@usc.edu
> Subject: Re: Reinterpretation of Samrukia as a pterosaur
>
> Indeed. I just checked both journals... and the last issue of Biology Letters 
> is dated from the 23rd of december (!). And Naish et al.'s paper is the 26th 
> online first paper (or whatever they call it).. There is therefore little 
> chance that it will be published before the end of the year - except if it 
> belongs to some special volume, in which case the date of acceptance is not 
> so important.