RE: Sapeornis chaoyangensis sp. nov.

["Tracy L. Ford" <dino.hunter@home.com>]

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu [mailto:owner-dinosaur@usc.edu]On Behalf Of
Williams, Tim
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 3:13 PM
To: 'dinosaur@usc.edu'
Subject: RE: Sapeornis chaoyangensis sp. nov.




>From Aspidel / LJB:

>  The new taxon, Sapeornis chaoyangensis gen. et sp. nov., has a more
>basal phylogenetic position than all other birds except for
>Archaeopteryx.
>And _Rahonavis_ AFAIK...   Friendly - LJB.


And _Yandangornis_ (assuming it's avian), and that _Archaeopteryx_-like
thing from North Korea ("Proornis" - not sure if it's been officially
described yet).



Tim
I did a drawing of the skeleton of Yandangornis (I need to put it on my
website still) and it kind of looks like a long tailed long winged
Caudipteryx. I thought it'd come out looking different.

Tracy L. Ford
P. O. Box 1171
Poway Ca  92074