Taxacom: building such a bridge (between DNA sequence and name) - was Minimalist revision of Mesochorus

Adam Cotton thaibaggie at gmail.com
Mon Sep 4 17:00:26 CDT 2023


On 05/09/2023 04:46, Michael A. Ivie via Taxacom wrote:
>
> I would love to see the T. rex holotype sequences. Paleontologists do 
> exist, but maybe on on this list?  All of these DNA proposals ignore 
> fossil taxa.
>
> M


It seems you missed an earlier comment in this thread that all the 
tissues in fossils have been replaced by rock during the fossilisation 
process, and as a result there is no possibility of obtaining DNA from 
those rocks.

Adam.


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