Re: A name for Archaeopteryx (Was: Re: Requiem for Diatryma: An SVPCA Epilog...

["Timothy Williams" <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com>]

George Olshevsky wrote:

> Genus: [To be described from the Late Jurassic of Korea, based on forelimb 
> bones with good feather impressions; first reported, with photographs, in 
> the popular press in Korea in the October 22, 1993 issue of Nodong Sinmum
(Feduccia, 1996)]

This is the so-called "North Korean Archaeopteryx", correct?  From the 
People's Happy Loving Democratic Republic of Korea (or whatever the crazy 
regime calls its unhappy country).  I think the stratum which yielded the 
specimen may be linked to eastern China's Yixian Formation, so it may be 
younger than Late Jurassic.  I'm not at all sure though.  A description of 
this bird would be wonderful.

Don't forget that, for completion, alleged "Archaeopteryx" material has been 
reported from Bihor in Romania, of Early Cretaceous age.


Tim

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