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Unidentifiable "boundary"
...Middle–Late Jurassic boundary fossils... The "boundary" is not expressed. Do the strata in which the fossil was found lie at the artificial boundary between- epochs deemed "Mid-Jurassic" and those deemed "Late"?-
Wetman (
talk) 14:56, 27 April 2014 (UTC)reply
Indeed, and that you interpreted this correctly shows that the boundary actually is expressed ;o). I'll try and rephrase it.--
MWAK (
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Reference to "modern pterosaurs"
"Long-winged modern pterosaurs" is probably not intended.
Also, is "30 square cm" deliberate? ("1 square U.S. foot" = "900 square cm") I am surprised that a pterosaur with a 1.5 m wingspan could end up in so small a space.
No, the "modern" obviously pertains to the birds only — and therefore there is no real ambiguity here. I'll change it nevertheless :o). The publication states in the Supplementary Information: "The elements of the holotype and only specimen of Kryptodrakon progenitor (IVPP V18184), gen. et sp. nov. were collected from a 30 cm2 area separated from all other fossils by at least 10 m distance." Such a concentration of bones is not exceptional, flowing water often deposing them in a little heap. Also it should be remembered that only a few, mostly broken and partial, elements were preserved, not an entire pterosaur.--
MWAK (
talk) 11:59, 3 May 2014 (UTC)reply
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A news item involving Kryptodrakon was featured on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the In the news section on 27 April 2014.
Unidentifiable "boundary"
...Middle–Late Jurassic boundary fossils... The "boundary" is not expressed. Do the strata in which the fossil was found lie at the artificial boundary between- epochs deemed "Mid-Jurassic" and those deemed "Late"?-
Wetman (
talk) 14:56, 27 April 2014 (UTC)reply
Indeed, and that you interpreted this correctly shows that the boundary actually is expressed ;o). I'll try and rephrase it.--
MWAK (
talk) 11:39, 3 May 2014 (UTC)reply
Reference to "modern pterosaurs"
"Long-winged modern pterosaurs" is probably not intended.
Also, is "30 square cm" deliberate? ("1 square U.S. foot" = "900 square cm") I am surprised that a pterosaur with a 1.5 m wingspan could end up in so small a space.
No, the "modern" obviously pertains to the birds only — and therefore there is no real ambiguity here. I'll change it nevertheless :o). The publication states in the Supplementary Information: "The elements of the holotype and only specimen of Kryptodrakon progenitor (IVPP V18184), gen. et sp. nov. were collected from a 30 cm2 area separated from all other fossils by at least 10 m distance." Such a concentration of bones is not exceptional, flowing water often deposing them in a little heap. Also it should be remembered that only a few, mostly broken and partial, elements were preserved, not an entire pterosaur.--
MWAK (
talk) 11:59, 3 May 2014 (UTC)reply