Re: A few dino-dilemmas

["Mickey_Mortimer" <Mickey_Mortimer@email.msn.com>]

Jordan Mallon wrote-

> 2.  Are there any fossil birds known from the Nemegt?  (i.e.
contemporaneous
> with _Tarbosaurus_ and _Saurolophus_).  If so, where might I be able to
find
> a reconstruction of one?

Hey, remember this post? ;-)
http://www.cmnh.org/fun/dinosaur-archive/2000Sep/msg00018.html
Anyway, only one bird has been found in the actual Nemegt Formation as far
as I know, although I'm not sure what formation Judinornis is known from
(somewhere in the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia).

Enantiornithines

Gurilynia Kurochkin 1999
G. nessovi Kurochkin 1999
Maastrichtian, LC
Nemegt Formation, Mongolia
holotype- (PIN 4499-12) proximal humerus
reffered- (PIN 4499-13) distal humerus
(PIN 4499-14) proximal coracoid
reference- Kurochkin, E.N. 1999. A new large enantiornithid from the Upper
Cretaceous of Mongolia (Aves, Enantiornithes). Russian Academy of Sciences,
Proceedings of the Zoological Institute 277:  130-141.  [In Russian w/
English summary.]

Mickey Mortimer