Re: Yandangornis

[Dino Guy Ralph <ralph.miller@alumni.usc.edu>]

If these lumpings are correct, and if _Jeholornis_ is sunk into 
_Shenzhouraptor_ as a previous post points out:

"Ji Qiang, Ji Shu'an, You Hailu, Zhang Jianping, Zhang Hongbin, Zhang
> Nanjun, Yuan Chongxi & Ji Xinxin, 2003. "An Early Cretaceous Avialan Bird, 
> Shenzhouraptor sinensis from Western Liaoning, China," Acta Geologica 
> Sinica 77(1): 21-26 [March 2003].
> The latter sinks Jeholornis prima as a junior subjective synonym of 
> Shenzhouraptor sinensis by publication priority (July 15, 2002 versus July 
> 25, 2002). "

... then all four genera would become one!  Mama mia!
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"Dino Guy" Ralph W. Miller III
Docent at the California Academy of Sciences
proud member of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marco Auditore" <maaudito@tin.it>
To: <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 3:19 PM
Subject: Yandangornis


> Only to tell that Dr. Zhonghe Zhou wrote to me that it consider 
> Yandangornis and Jixiangornis synonim of Jeholornis.
> Probably for Jixiangornis he is right, but if I remember correctly the 
> fore and hind limb proportions of Yandangornis are quite different.
>
> Marco