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Re: Mesozoic birds made insects shrink
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 1:58 PM, <tyazbeck@comcast.net> wrote:
> I still wonder if the extinction of rhamphorynchoids (yes, I know they're
> paraphyletic, Dave)
Which means they didn't really go extinct.
A better way to phrase it might be the survival of short-tailed
pterosaurs over long-tailed pterosaurs. (After all, anurognathids had
short tails and appear to have lasted longer than other
non-pterodactyloid clades.) Interesting that this happened in Avialae
as well. (I have no idea if it's the case for bats, though.)
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T. Michael Keesey
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