Re: K/T birds

[fredericus ruhe <fredruhe@xs4all.nl>]

Well, all the answers are in the Dinosaur encyclopaedia by Graeme Worth.

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©2001, The Dinosaur Encyclopaedia

At 23:08 12-12-2001 -0500, you wrote:
>On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Daniel Bensen wrote:
>
>> I just read the Natural History article about the Gondwanan origin of
>> modern birds (VERY interesting, and I'd like to hear the List's
>> opinions about the article).  My question is this, what bird types
>> were there in Laurasia that got killed by Chixulab?  In other words,
>> what kinds of birds were still around at the end of the Cretaceous in
>> Asiamerica?  I can think of _Avisaurus_, the hespernornithids, and the
>> ichthyornithids, but that's it.  Were the confusiusornids still
>> around?
>
>I think all known confucisornithids are Barremian.
>
>_Limenavis_ is a bird related to neornitheans from the
>Campanian-Maastrichtian of Argentina -- not quite Asiamerica. Also from
>the right time and wrong place are a number of Madagascan fossils, such as
>those of _Vorona_ and _Rahonavis_ (if you want to call it a bird).
>
>_Apsaravis_ (Mongolia) comes close, timewise -- probably Campanian.
>
>I have these genera listed as Late Cretaceous -- not sure if they are
>Maastrichtian or not:
>_Kuszholia_ (Mongolia)
>_Patagopteryx_ (Argentina)
>_Gargantuavis_ (France -- Cretaceous, not sure if Late or Early)
>_Alexornis_ (Mexico)
>_Gurilynia_ (Mongolia)
>_Kizylkumavis_ (Kazakhstan)
>_Sazavis_ (Uzbekistan)
>_Enantiornis_ (S. America & Asia)
>_Gobipteryx_ (Mongolia)
>_Lectavis_ (Argentina)
>_Yungavolucris_ (Argentina)
>_Neuquenornis_ (Argentina)
>_Avisaurus_ (N. America)
>_Soroavisaurus_ (Argentina)
>_Apatornis_ (Kansas)
>_Ichthyornis_ (N. America)
>_Baptornis_ (N. America)
>_Judinornis_ (Mongolia)
>_Asiahesperornis_ (Kazakhstan)
>_Parascaniornis_ (Sweden)
>_Parahesperornis_ (N. America)
>
>Then there are a number of neornithean (charadriomorph) forms from the
>?latest Maastrichtian of North America -- graculavids, etc.
>
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