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Not to carry discussion too far, but, Terry Poulton wrote:
>... Certain parts of the world, the column, or taxonomic groups
>still have a tremendous quantity of entirely undescribed forms....
My only annotation is that find-and-describe-types would suggest all
or nearly all taxa and places need exponentially more study to really
characterize ancient biotas. To a substantial degree, my work of the
past 15 years has been revising, reevaluating, and occasionally
discovering Cretaceous vertebrates in a region assumed unproductive
or adequately studied. I doubt any place and stratum has had
sufficient study, and I deplore the general lack of support for
expanding the paleobiological data base.
David Schwimmer
Dep't of Chemistry & Geology
Columbus College, Columbus GA 31907-5645
schwimmer_david@cc.csg.peachnet.edu
No, I'm not Ross.
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