Re: Cretaceous Rahonavis-like bird from Morocco and Hesperornis rossica

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

> The absence of a developed pleurocoel, however, indicates
> that it belongs to a distinct taxon.

Or that it's not adult...?

> And more stuff has been found for _Hesperornis rossica_.

*H. rossicus*. Unlike the Russian and Latin words for bird, the Greek one is 
masculine.

> (By "inner fingers" the authors probably mean "inner toes".)

Certainly. There's only one word for both in Russian (...and Latin... and 
French...).

> Panteleyev, A.V. Popov, E.V. and Averianov, A.O. (2004).
> New record of Hesperornis rossicus

:-)