While Raymond doesn't write about pterosaurs, I'll give a shot (I bet this will be deleted) ... *Azhdarchoidea* At the first sight, Spec's winged vertebrate...
Ha! I can steal time to read an essay as it comes in! Progress! And a great essay it is, especially toward the end. ... *Volaticotherium* is more likely Early...
David Marjanovic
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Nov 1, 2008 8:36 pm
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... a great ... You're being sarcastic right? My essay (if it is even classifiable as one) seems to have thousands of mistakes. ... Jurassic (and ... history; ...
... Oh no. Sure it has lots of mistakes, but that's more or less inevitable. ... Modern? Do you mean "extinct but Spec"? The latter are supposed to be just as...
David Marjanovic
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Nov 2, 2008 10:49 am
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... What do you mean? They discovered what were the pterosaurs closest relatives after all? Because as far as I'm aware relationships with groups as far apart...
... Well, almost only dinosaurs and "prolacertiforms" have ever been suggested. The only person to suggest "prolacertiforms", and the only person to believe ...
David Marjanovic
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Nov 2, 2008 12:06 pm
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... suggested. ... to believe ... Peters, who ... analysis. ... an ... support ... Since David Peters "Pseudo-Pan" seems to be mad (just look at his pterosaur...
... David already critiqued this, but... 1. You can say "while popularly mistaken" 2. Spexplorers have access to living pterosaurs. They'll take blood ...
... I disagree with you here David. I have always wrote my essays as if we're writing a field guide for a HE audience. Spec has generally been hazy on if...
... Zimmerman" <Spunkmeyer7654321@...> wrote: Oh great - not only did I made biological inaccuracies in my essay, but I also made several grammatical mistakes...
... It is saved, and now forms a clade with the nandrakes. Check the archives. Raymond and I made *a lot* of essay revisions over the last year which haven't...
... I think you're right. ... I'm not sure where you're getting your information here, but I think you're wrong wrong wrong! (no offense, but I've thought on...
... Don't worry about it. We all tend to make mistakes if others are not editing our work. I tend to add redundant clauses to my essays all the time, usually...
... This makes plenty of sense, but I don't think we should change that without Tiina's input....
David Marjanovic
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Nov 2, 2008 3:27 pm
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Don't worry about mistakes in the English of the essay -- I intend to quietly correct them while uploading. ... 11. Had strong beaks, probably strong enough to...
David Marjanovic
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Nov 2, 2008 3:34 pm
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... Well, Europe during the ice ages was nearly completly covered by ice caps, and the areas that remained ice free were either tundras or covered by boreal...
... It could be dealt with provided pterosaurs were migratory however. Particularly because flaplings would be able to migrate almost immediately upon...
... The problem of course, is the existence of Paleocene remains of Armadillos, Mesonychians and plesiadapiforms all within 5 million years of the K/T. That...
... Boo!Hiss!!!! I call upon the Great Ice Queen of the North to slip loose her sacred Baskervilles to destroy this abomination! Actually, for a first time...
... bet ... Indeed, I was considering making the toths just ibis analogues, leaving heron and stork (other azhdarchids are too terrestrial to compete derictly...
... It has been suggested that the triisodonts like *Eoconodon* (perhaps not proper mesonychians, but close enough), which appear quite suddenly in the very...
This is a bit out of it but the "K mesonychian" sounds very much like a "K meson chain" in nuclear physics. How it got in this discussion beats me. paul sparks...
... a "K meson chain" in nuclear physics. How it got in this discussion beats me. ... Mesonychians are mammals, nothing to do with physics. How did you get in...
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Nov 5, 2008 10:49 am
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Doesn't help me any, because I'm not logged in with my Yahoo! ID. (Doing so would completely mess up the e-mails.) Please mail the file to me....
David Marjanovic
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Nov 5, 2008 10:58 am
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... (Doing so ... I can't see your full email adress; I need it to show the new file...
I'm just replying to voice my concern over the pterosaur essay. I think having pterosaurs occur as ibis and heron like species is overkill, especially since...
... a ... Well, birds might be an issue, and indeed the Old World is populated by paleognaths, mattiraptors and rahonavids, which make the presence of ...