Comments on: The Bat-Winged Dinosaur That Never Was http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2012/10/the-bat-winged-dinosaur-that-never-was/ Where Paleontology Meets Pop Culture Sat, 22 Dec 2012 16:48:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 By: Johannes http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2012/10/the-bat-winged-dinosaur-that-never-was/comment-page-1/#comment-7138 Johannes Thu, 11 Oct 2012 23:11:20 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/?p=8563#comment-7138 Andrea Cau and Lukas Panzarin have recently (2008 and 2012) played around with the idea of Scansoriopterygids sporting a wing membrane attached to their aye-aye-like extended third finger. A provocative conjecture inspired in part by the absence of preserved pennaceous wing feathers and in part by morphological convergence between Scansoriopterygids and anurognath pterosaurs. http://theropoda.blogspot.it/2008/10/super-theropod-week-part-1.html http://theropoda.blogspot.dk/2012/07/il-ritorno-del-paraviano-pterosauro.html The superficial similarities between these two hypothetical near-bird visions are quite amusing. Andrea Cau and Lukas Panzarin have recently (2008 and 2012) played around with the idea of Scansoriopterygids sporting a wing membrane attached to their aye-aye-like extended third finger. A provocative conjecture inspired in part by the absence of preserved pennaceous wing feathers and in part by morphological convergence between Scansoriopterygids and anurognath pterosaurs.
http://theropoda.blogspot.it/2008/10/super-theropod-week-part-1.html
http://theropoda.blogspot.dk/2012/07/il-ritorno-del-paraviano-pterosauro.html

The superficial similarities between these two hypothetical near-bird visions are quite amusing.

]]> By: Don Druid http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2012/10/the-bat-winged-dinosaur-that-never-was/comment-page-1/#comment-7136 Don Druid Thu, 11 Oct 2012 20:37:52 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/?p=8563#comment-7136 From an ignorant: I know there has been some dispute over the construction of pterosaur wings over the years regarding membranes between limbs and digits or lack thereof. This defunct Archaeopteryx seems very unlikely, but how are such membranes preserved in the fossil record, if at all? From an ignorant: I know there has been some dispute over the construction of pterosaur wings over the years regarding membranes between limbs and digits or lack thereof. This defunct Archaeopteryx seems very unlikely, but how are such membranes preserved in the fossil record, if at all?

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