Comments on: Volaticotherium—Mesozoic glider http://www.hmnh.org/archives/2006/12/16/volaticotherium%e2%80%94mesozoic-glider/ The institutionalized doodles and discoveries of a dead-animal designer. Thu, 20 Oct 2011 21:55:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Trevor Dykes http://www.hmnh.org/archives/2006/12/16/volaticotherium%e2%80%94mesozoic-glider/comment-page-1/#comment-7961 Trevor Dykes Tue, 19 Dec 2006 08:05:39 +0000 http://www.hmnh.org/archives/2006/12/16/volaticotherium%e2%80%94mesozoic-glider/#comment-7961 "Volaticotherium, however, hails from well before any of these aerial upstarts." That's putting them in their place, Matt. Nicely done. I'm still typing up my Volati-homage. John Steinbeck's helping out. Also of interest is that this critter comes from the beds as Castorocauda, the swimming superstar. And this means the parents of Castoro managed to get the age of their baby wrong. Apparently, rather than the bone beds being below a level with some informative volcanic dust (ca. 165 million years), they're above it. As somebody who frequently wakes up on the floor, I can empathise with that sort of mistake. “Volaticotherium, however, hails from well before any of these aerial upstarts.”

That’s putting them in their place, Matt. Nicely done. I’m still typing up my Volati-homage. John Steinbeck’s helping out. Also of interest is that this critter comes from the beds as Castorocauda, the swimming superstar. And this means the parents of Castoro managed to get the age of their baby wrong. Apparently, rather than the bone beds being below a level with some informative volcanic dust (ca. 165 million years), they’re above it. As somebody who frequently wakes up on the floor, I can empathise with that sort of mistake.

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