Re: The dino-bird page is up!

[Josh Smith <smithjb@sas.upenn.edu>]

"T. Mike Keesey" wrote:

> http://research.amnh.org/vertpaleo/dinobird.html
>
> Cute little fella.
>
> (BTW, the page seems to be saying that the Yixian Formation is Late
> Jurassic -- hasn't it been shown to be Barremian?)
>

Given the authors, they probably ARE saying Jurassic.  But then again, there
have been a number of works that have come out in the last year citing a
Tthonian age for these deposits.  I guess they have all just missed all of the
geochronological work supporting a Barremian age...



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