Re: Vegavis gen. nov. - new anseriform in today's Nature

[David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

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From: "Ronald Orenstein" <ron.orenstein@rogers.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 1:55 AM

> Actually, how much do we know about
> enantiornithine diversity at the KT?

Very, very little. There's *Avisaurus* in the Hell Creek Fm, known from an 
isolated tarsometatarsus, and that was it... oh, there's something somewhere 
in southern France, undescribed and probably somewhat older.

> Perhaps they were already on the way out
> (or perhaps a few survived for a while, perhaps on
> islands somewhere, and we just haven't found their remains yet.....)

While I think these assumptions are not most parsimonious, there's so far 
nothing to rule them out.