10-07-2021, 04:17 PM
(10-07-2021, 07:03 AM)Kyng Wrote: Certainly is!Hehe. It was a half-joke because Sampson is the king of ceratopsians.
Yes, I'm a bit surprised he didn't too, given the work he's done on ceratopsids . Maybe he just got unlucky, and either didn't find any specimens, or didn't find any that were complete enough to be indentified? (After all, we don't know how common this species would have been: there may well have been some species that we will never know about, because they were so rare, and no complete remains have survived!)
"Should the lack of fossils be a big concern? No! The fossil record is incredibly sparse. How sparse? Caley (2007) gives a figure of around 2000 birds known only through fossils, compared with an estimate of 1.6 million bird species that have existed. That means we have only found fossils of 1 out of every 800 bird species...." (Boyd, 2014?)
Boyd, J. (2014?), Taxonomy in Flux: Mezoic Birds. http://jboyd.net/Taxo/mesozoic.html
Caley, K.J. (2007), Fossil birds, in “Handbook of the Birds of the World, volume 12, Picathartes to Tits and Chickadees”, (del Hoyo, J., A. Elliott, and D. Christie, eds.), Lynx Edicions, Barcelona, pp. 10-55.
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