From: "Daniel Bensen" <dbensen@gotnet.net>
Reply-To: dbensen@gotnet.net
To: Renesto Silvio <renesto@mailserver.unimi.it>, dinosaur@usc.edu
Subject: Unknown bird
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 08:37:15 -0700
I just got the second edition of the Feduccia bird book and I have a
question.
No, I am not looking to start an argument about dinosaur/bird
relationships;
I think we've all agreed to disagree on that point. In fact, I am asking
an
easily answerable question: on page 395 (and this is the second edition,
remember)
there are two nice photographs of a fossolized bird. The legend under the
photos
labels them "The oldest enantiornithine bird is a small, toothed creature
with
a short snout from the _Confuciusornis_ fauna. It is being described by
Hou,
Martin, Zhou, and Feduccia." This book was revised in 1999, and so is a
little
out of date. My question is this: has that bird been described, yet and
what
is its name?
Thanks,
Dan