Chris Nedin has another post of great interest (even if it is for a late period, the Pleistocene) which goes into my file of "the older naturalists were great observers", as he shows how modern chemistry supports Richard Owens' diagnosis of Thylacoleo as a carnivore, even though it is in a clade of herbivores.
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Old hands at the usenet group talk.origins will recall Chris Nedin well — and now he has entered the blogosphere with his brand new blog, Ediacaran, a blog about paleontology and all the other things that waft through
... Wilkins turns green with envy.
'Prerogative of harlots' has a nice additional story:
http://paleocoll.blogspot.com/2009/05/cool.html